Campbell Harvey: Factor investing beyond the snake oil

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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Public equity manager challenges the case for private

Public equity manager challenges the case for private

Loomis Sayles’ Aziz Hamzaogullari has questioned whether asset allocators are giving private equity more credit than it is worth, saying the case for investing in PE rests on flawed return measurement, hidden risks and high fees and that public equities should be treated with the same “patience” that PE receives.

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Inside the pension crisis

Managing director for Rogerscasey and former CIO of the Kentucky Retirement Systems, Adam Tosh, looks at the pension challenges facing state and local governments.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

CIC gets its money back from collapsed US cash trust

The China Investment Corporation has recovered all of its $5.3 billion invested in a US money market fund, the Primary Fund, which collapsed and suspended redemptions in 2008.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Climate change: addressing the major skeptic arguments

This paper by the Columbia Climate Center at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, and commissioned by DB Climate Change Advisors, examines the claims being made about climate change science. It higlights the importance of understanding the science in the context of a climate change investment thesis. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

The oil spill from an investor’s perspective – not as bad

The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not only the most devastating environmental disaster ever in the US, it raises issues around energy policies which continue to evolve. A client note from Russell Investments says energy stocks will continue to reflect the impact of the disaster and investors may well look at

Funds seed for the future

Two major pension funds from the Netherlands and Canada – ABP and OMERS – have seeded an innovation and technology program to invest in their domestic knowledge economies. Called inkef capital, it has already begun searching for the success stories of the future. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

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