The Economics of Keystone
Coverage of the 2013 Investment Innovation Conference.
- December 11, 2013 September 13, 2019
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Coverage of the 2013 Investment Innovation Conference.
Jacques Lussier gives us a preview of his talk at the 2013 Investment Innovation Conference.
Preview of the 2013 Risk Management Conference.
Preview of the 2013 Risk Management Conference.
How vulnerable is your portfolio? Risk Management Conference keynote gives us a preview of his talk.
Coverage of the 2013 Global Investment Conference
Bailouts are complicated things when it comes to sovereign nations, as the continuing woes of Greece, Ireland, Spain and Portugal illustrate. For all the infusion of Eurofunds, austerity has ultimately ended in a dead parrot scenario (for those readers who recall the Monty Python sketch): economies that wouldn’t go “voom if you put four million volts through it!”
GIC keynote on what caused the Financial Crisis and how to fix it.
For at least a decade, institutional investors have been encouraged to move beyond a traditional 60/40 stock/bond allocation, in search of both alpha, and better beta.. In part, they were encouraged by the outstanding returns Yale University’s chief investment officer, David Swensen, produced.
There was a time when performance drove manager selection. But that was more than a decade ago, when most pension plans held a mix of bonds and equities, perhaps some real estate and very little else. Then it all blew up. What worked in the 1990s probably doesn’t work now. Certainly, traditional assets have not […]