I chat with Campbell, Professor of Finance at Duke University, on the future of quantitative finance, academic journals, model fitting and the intellectual fallacies within inference.
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A view that the US stock market is overvalued and equity risk premia will be lower over the long term has driven New Zealand Super to lower the return expectations for its reference portfolio following its recent five-yearly review of the benchmark. Co-chief investment officer Brad Dunstan also flags underweight commodity exposure as an area to address and explains why the fund remains sceptical of illiquidity premia despite seeing a growing case for private markets.
An alliance of Scotland’s finance sector, power and renewable energy firms and universities is backing a campaign being taken to Westminster, to lobby ministers on Edinburgh being the ideal home for the Green Investment Bank being set up by the UK government.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
The United States private sector retirement system could adopt some particular elements of the public sector retirement system to bring the differences between the two back into balance, according to NASRA research director, Keith Brainard.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
The Harvard Management Company is actively using ETF’s for geographical tilts, with exposure to China and Brazil through iShares investments its two largest holdings at the end of December 2010.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
In new research Ken French and Eugene Fama are expanding their famed “size, value and momentum” work on the US market to an international data sample.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
News this week that the world’s largest hedge fund manager, Man Group, is to take full ownership of Ore Hill Partners Capital Management highlights the under-researched area of event-driven hedge funds.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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