We are three months away from the longest yield curve inversion-to-recession period. Will Cam Harvey's famous recession indicator hold? Highlights from EI podcast.
Meir Statman shares his insights on the broader aspects of financial well-being and its interconnection with life satisfaction.
To understand the mid- to long-term outlook for the banking sector, we need to understand the key drivers at work in the industry today.
Climate risk is financial risk, according to Mindy Lubber.
Mental shortcuts are useful for handling information overload, but consciously structuring your decision process can make bad or ineffective outcomes less likely.
Frederic P. Lebel, CFA, discusses how CFA Institute approaches the objective of making its members feel proud and recognized for being charterholders.
“Our industry lags most others in terms of attracting, retaining, and advancing women, and that’s a problem for all of us,” says the president and CEO of Charles Schwab Investment Management.
Institutional investors are the majority owners of most publicly traded companies but allow activist hedge funds with smaller positions to push through corporate changes. Robert Pozen argues that institutional investors should actively participate to ensure that the outcome promotes long-term growth instead of temporary price spurts.
Although the author’s argument heralding the demise of modern portfolio theory (MPT) seems weak, he offers a compelling argument for active management. Using exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and asset rotation, he demonstrates how to achieve a return superior to that of a passively managed fund that relies on MPT and index funds. Asset Rotation may well be a harbinger of an “investment renaissance” and the end of passive management.
Will banking innovation in China promote growth and reform?