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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.

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.

AI in Investment Management: 5 Lessons from the Risk Frontier

As AI transforms investment management with powerful tools for decision making, it still exposes markets to cognitive, regulatory, and systemic risks.

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.

Two Enduring Legacies, One Oracle’s Exit, and “Buffett’s Alpha”
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Commemorating Warren Buffett’s legacy and the Financial Analysts Journal’s 80th Anniversary through the lens of the award-winning article, “Buffett’s Alpha.”

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.

When the Equity Premium Fades, Alpha Shines

As the equity risk premium declines, alpha becomes critical. Discover how investors can adapt through factor strategies and global diversification.

Book Review: Quantitative Risk and Portfolio Management: Theory and Practice

This book fills a unique gap between the CFA curriculum and the growing demand to find model-driven investment management solutions.

ML Models Need Better Training Data: The GenAI Solution

As complex ML models become more prevalent in investment management, their tendency to overfit to specific historical conditions poses a growing risk to investment outcomes.

Abnormal FX Returns and Liquidity-Based Machine Learning Approaches

Navigating FX market volatility requires more than traditional analysis. Liquidity-aware models and machine learning techniques can provide an edge in detecting and forecasting abnormal returns.