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Mariana Mazzucato Calls for a Disruption of Value
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Good policies enables healthy markets, and Mariana Mazzucato argues that an understanding of value is essential for creating good policies.

Best Practices in Pension Fund Management: The Canadian Model
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What is the highly acclaimed Canadian public pension fund model, and can its methods be translated to other countries?

Hear the Financial Thought Leaders of Today… and Tomorrow!
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Along with presentations from established luminaries, the 69th CFA Institute Annual Conference offers a chance to hear from influential thinkers before they assume leadership roles in the global economy.

Adapting to Disruptions in Asset Management
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The asset management industry is “facing disruption from every point on the compass,” says Anne Richards of Aberdeen Asset Management. But there is an opportunity for the sector to mitigate these difficulties.

The State of Europe: Current Challenges, Future Potential
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European authorities underestimated the effects of the financial crisis on banks, resulting in a “lost half decade,” says Lorenzo Bini Smaghi. But there is room for the eurozone to regain competitiveness.

Economic Activism: Europe’s Struggles with Monetary and Fiscal Policy
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When monetary policy is activist and fiscal policy is gridlocked, overturning decades of precedent, how can investment professionals adapt?

The ECB and QE: A Risky Experiment
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Long-time central bank watchers will not be surprised to hear that Jürgen Stark is skeptical about the program of quantitative easing (QE) launched by the European Central Bank (ECB) on 22 January.

A Specter Overhanging Europe
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The eurozone needs to address its lingering debt crisis before it loses the trust of international investors.

Lord Adair Turner: Solutions to the Real Estate Price Boom and Post-Crisis Recession
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In his opening keynote address at the 2014 European Investment Conference, Lord Adair Turner, senior fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, spoke about the shortcomings of “too big to fail” and inflation targeting.

Fixed-Income Investing at the End of Time (or at Least at the End of the Business Cycle)
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For bond managers, how artfully and delicately the US Federal Reserve handles the Taper is just one minor concern among many. Still, opportunities abound.