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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.

How GenAI-Powered Synthetic Data Is Reshaping Investment Workflows

How is GenAI-generated synthetic data helping investment teams simulate markets, boost sentiment models, and extend insight beyond real-world limits?

Mind the Inflation Gap: Hedging with Real Assets

Timely insights on portfolio risk, inflation hedging, and market cycles—grounded in financial history and written for investment decision-makers.

Buyers Beware: 7 Red Flags That Signal a Private Market Reckoning

Explore red flags in private markets as speculative excess, retail marketing, and valuation risks mount. Lessons from financial history.

Private Equity Returns Without the Lockups

Explore a new approach to replicating private equity returns with daily liquidity, combining futures, dynamic asset allocation, and risk management overlays.

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.

Private Credit’s Surge Has Investors Excited and Regulators Concerned

Private credit's accelerated growth raises critical questions about liquidity, transparency, and systemic risk.

Think We’ve Seen the Last +1,000-BPS High Yield Spread? Think Again

Think +1,000-bps high yield spreads are history? Marty Fridson shows why they could still hit that mark in the next recession.

Tariffs, Inflation, and Returns: How Investments Respond to Supply Shocks

Learn how tariff-related inflation shocks ripple through markets—and which assets have historically helped investors navigate the turbulence.

Amid The Noise, Active Management Quietly Reinvents Itself    

The headlines say active management is dead—but it’s quietly reshaping itself into SMAs, model portfolios, and personalized strategies wrapped in passive clothing.