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Drivers of Value


How to Value Digital Tokens: A 5-Step Fair Value Framework

How financial analysts can approach digital asset valuation through a structured, five-step fair value framework.

From Risk to Resilience: What Finance Can Learn from the Futures

From forecasting to foresight: how scenario thinking enhances risk awareness and long-term resilience in finance.

Mind the Cycle: From Macro Shifts to Portfolio Plays 

Markets move on change, not levels. Spot shifts in growth, inflation, and liquidity early to stay ahead of the global cycle.

From Sharpe to Pedersen: Why Active Management Isn’t Zero-Sum After All

Sharpe’s arithmetic explained markets at rest. Pedersen’s model shows markets in motion and how active management creates real economic value.

Book Review: On Progress and Prosperity

A collection of witty insightful essays by Larry Siegel explore progress, investing, and the ideas shaping modern economics.

Design Beats Luck: How AI Taxonomy Can Help Investment Firms Evolve

Without an AI taxonomy, investment firms risk overrelying on agentic AI and underutilizing it for optimal capital allocation.

China Inc. Returns: What’s Driving HKEX’s Boom

Chinese Mainland firms shift from Wall Street to HKEX as reforms, delistings, and policy alignment drive record listings and new investor access.

A Strategic Buyer’s Guide to PE Exits

The line between financial engineering and sustainable value creation in PE exits is thin, and strategic buyers must be prepared to tell the difference.

The Augmented LP: 6 Ways AI Can Enhance the Allocator’s Workflow

AI can help LPs structure data, enhance due diligence, and improve oversight, while keeping human judgment central.

The Factor Mirage: How Quant Models Go Wrong

Why factor investing often fails in practice — and how causal reasoning helps quant models perform in the real world.