State of the Industry

By Charles Skorina This month we focus on the venerable foundations of New York City and one of their most…

By Diane Harrison What habit is as old as time itself? It has to be making all kinds of ‘do-better’…

By Scott Opsal, CFA Director of Equities, The Leuthold Group The widespread popularity of smart beta ETFs…

A recent Columbia Business School research paper looks into the transaction costs associated with smart beta…

Economists  devote a good deal of attention to what they call the “principal-agent problem,” defined to…

The Science Communication Unit (SCU) of the University of the West of England has produced what it calls a “…

The market for liquid alternatives continues to grow and adapt. On St. Valentine’s Day of this year, ABR…

By Charles Skorina Bruce Zimmerman joined UTIMCO as Chief Executive Officer and chief investment officer in…

By Diane Harrison Looking to the past as a way to gauge the likely direction of the future is a popular…

The British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, in a new paper, contends that private equity…

Two scholars affiliated with Singapore Management University have published a study of “the pitfalls of going…

By Charles Skorina Endowment returns took a beating last year and the turnover in chief investment officers…

A new paper by the Pension Institute looks at the investing behavior of UK defined-benefit plans over the…

PwC, the global network of business and tax consultancies, has put out a white paper on the near future of…

The investment world now understands that politics and related matters of business climate in the Republic of…