News Archive: May - 2012

Paper on Market Forecasting Wins AQR Award

AQR Capital Management has presented its first annual AQR Insight Award to Bryan Kelly, Ph.D., of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Seth Pruitt, Ph.D., of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for their unpublished research in predicting market returns more accurately over one-month and one-year time horizons.

An Alternative QE3?

The International Monetary Fund agreed that Quantitative Easing is working in the UK, but there could be another way for the economy to be supported without pensions feeling the pain?

CalPERS Clamors for Wal-Mart Investigation

There must be a thorough and independent investigation into the bribery allegations involving Wal-Mart's largest foreign subsidiary, Wal-Mart de Mexico, dating back to 2005, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has asserted.