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Performance Measurement & Evaluation


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.

Private Equity’s New Exit Playbook

The rise of continuation funds reflects private equity's longer hold periods for assets amid higher rates and narrowing exit strategies.

Why Financial Advisors Struggle to Embrace Bitcoin’s Rise

Bitcoin challenges financial orthodoxy, valuation models, and regulation, forcing professionals to rethink what money and value really mean.

Financial Selection and Investor Herding: Lessons from Evolutionary Biology

Markets can mimic peacock mating as flashy signals seduce capital while real economic fitness risks are ignored until reality bites.

Quarterly Earnings: Signal vs. Noise, Cost vs. Benefit

As policymakers weigh semiannual earnings, data suggest quarterly reports still give investors vital insight.

Capital Deployment Matters: A Smarter Way to Assess PE Returns

Uncover how idle capital distorts private equity returns and why measuring what’s actually put to work gives investors a truer picture of performance.

Frankenstein’s Index Fund

How over-diversification and redundant active management created a monstrous inefficiency in US public pension investing—at taxpayers’ expense.

From Ivory Tower to Investment Toolbox: Why Research Matters

Discover how cutting-edge academic research becomes real-world investment strategy and explore award-winning insights from the Hillsdale–CFA Society Toronto Research Award.