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The Alpha Capture Ratio: Rising Interest Rates Mean Pricier Alpha

What can hedge fund investors do to optimize the price they pay for alpha?

ChatGPT and Large Language Models: Syntax and Semantics

Today, ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs) more generally represent the next evolution in AI/ML technology. And that comes with a number of implications.

The Auto Sector’s Green Transition: Three Roads to Lower Returns?

Are investors fully factoring in enough investment risk from the green transition?

Small Caps: Party Like It’s 2000?

The legendary musician Prince exhorted us to “Party like it’s 1999,” but today, as a small-cap stock investor, I’d flip the calendar one year ahead, to 2000.

How Do Performance Metrics Correlate? Might Fund Managers Cherry-Pick?

With various performance metrics to choose among, might fund managers be tempted to cherry-pick those that reflect most favorably on their performance?

FASB Exposure Draft on Disaggregation of Income Statement Expense: A Glass Half Empty

While the FASB's proposed partial disaggregation would be helpful to investors, we are discouraged by its limited scope after waiting so many years.

From Likes to Investments: Our Response to the FCA Consultation on Financial Promotions via Social Media

Social media is borderless. Regulation is not. That's why global cooperation among regulators is necessary to deliver the best possible outcomes for consumers.

The Benefits of Using Economically Meaningful Factors in Financial Data Science

As machine learning (ML) and data science become ever more integrated into finance, which factors should we consider for our ML-driven investment models and how should we select among them?

Rethinking Corporate FX Hedging: Seeing the Forest through the Trees

Why are publicly traded companies so often blindsided by FX volatility?

Book Review: The Economics of the Stock Market

Now, more than ever, we urgently need a comprehensive alternative to the neoclassical model of stock market behavior. Andrew Smithers attempts to fill in this gap.