Agriculture is a challenging investment with rising potential, fueled by rising food prices, agricultural land’s long-term inflation-linked characteristics, and low correlation to most asset classes, consulting firm bfinance asserts.
No longer sui generis, the Harvard Management Company has retreated back into the pack. The seeds of its collapse, it is now clear, were sown in its glory days.
Corporate pension plan funding has climbed sharply in March fueled by rising interest rates and a consequential drop in liabilities, according to an analysis by Milliman.
Asset owners are a learned group but do, occasionally, need help. One Harvard Business School professor, focusing his talents in the low-volatility investing space, is providing just that.
Investment manager turnover is often the result of investor irrationality and the use of models such as Bayesian statistics could help provide understanding, according to consulting firm Towers Watson.
Institutional investment managers are becoming increasingly positive on the US economy while they remain concerned about macro risks such as the European debt crisis, a new survey by Northern Trust shows.
The adaptive markets hypothesis has gained a stronger footing in the financial world as the traditional paradigms of modern portfolio theory and the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH) have proven to be woefully inadequate, according a recent whitepaper by MIT professor Andrew Lo.
Want to know what JP Morgan thinks will shape the economy? Read about the implications of fiscal policy, the labor force, energy, manufacturing, and finance.
