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Research and Policy Center Top 10 Publications from 2025

These popular publications from CFA Institute Research and Policy Center offer practical insight for leaders shaping investment decisions.

What Successful Investors Read: Book Recommendations from Professionals

The best investors read widely about people, systems, bias, and failure because investing is more than numbers.

Public Blockchain Settlement: From Pilot to Modernized Market Structure

Major financial institutions are advancing blockchain-based settlement, signaling gradual but meaningful change in market infrastructure.

The Growth Story Behind Insurance-Linked Securities

Investors are revisiting insurance-linked securities for yield, diversification, and resilience amid rising catastrophe risk.

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.

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.

Tokenized Money Market Funds: Cybersecurity Lessons from the Digital Cash Frontier

Tokenized MMFs merge blockchain with institutional finance and offer speed and composability but demand airtight cybersecurity and key controls.

Top 10 Blogs from Q3: Private Market Reckoning, Fed Pivots, the Case for Low-Vol

Top 10 blogs from Q3 reveal what investors read most: a private market reckoning, Fed pivots, and the resilience of low-volatility strategies.

Book Review: Irrational Together

Explore how culture, ideology, and group norms influence economic behavior in ways that go beyond standard behavioral finance models.