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Portfolio Management


SEC Scrutiny of ESG-Related Disclosures: What to Expect

What should investors know about the SEC filing review process and how it may affect ESG-related disclosures?

Regret and Optimal Portfolio Allocations

To understand risk for portfolio optimization purposes, we need to consider regret.

ChatGPT and Generative AI: What They Mean for Investment Professionals

How will all the ChatGPT- and LLM-related developments affect how investment professionals work?

Is the 60/40 Portfolio Still Relevant?

How do portfolios with asset allocations of 100% equity, 100% bond, 60/40, and 80/20 in the US, UK, Italian, Swiss, and global markets perform over time?

Rethinking Retirement Planning Outcome Metrics

Retirement, like life, is fundamentally uncertain. That's why we need to provide clients with more context about what missing their retirement-income goals might look like.

The Nuts and Bolts of Private Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Investing

What terms, metrics, and concepts do investors need to have under their belt to approach the CRE asset class?

Do ESG Funds Have Higher ESG Scores?

The first step in testing whether ESG funds deliver higher ESG scores is to determine what to compare them against.

The Active Management Delusion: Respect the Wisdom of the Crowd

"Neither the Financial Analysts as a whole nor the investment funds as a whole can expect to ‘beat the market,’ because in a significant sense they (or you) are the market."

What ESG News Matters Most to the Market?

Not all ESG news events are associated with significant changes in stock price.

Is the Copper–Gold Ratio a Dependable Leading Indicator on Rates?

Earlier this year, the copper–gold ratio was, in Jeffrey Gundlach's words, “screaming that the 10-year should go lower.”