There is no summer respite for risk managers at asset management firms as they work toward an August 19 deadline to comply with Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 18f-4, which requires them to...
June 17, 2022 | By Michael Shari
In January 2021, Mark Makepeace came out of a short-lived retirement from London Stock Exchange Group’s FTSE Russell to become CEO of Wilshire. He immediately got into educating pension funds, asset...
March 18, 2022 | By Michael Shari
Ever since Harry Markowitz introduced Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) in “Portfolio Selection,” a 1952 Journal of Finance article, institutional investors have applied it to spread their risk across...
January 21, 2022 | By Michael Shari
Organizations across the U.S. continue to transfer billions of dollars of defined benefit (DB) pension plan liabilities to insurance companies. These so-called pension risk transfers could easily...
November 24, 2021 | By Tom Sablak
Securities financing, used by institutional investors to generate returns on assets and hedge price volatility, is becoming increasingly popular among cryptocurrency holders. Evidence of the...
September 3, 2021 | By John Hintze
As high-net-worth investors, family offices and other professional and institutional investors diversify into cryptocurrency and other digital assets, a question arises about readiness: Have...
August 27, 2021 | By Michael Shari
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission have filed civil charges relating to losses incurred by the Chicago-based LJM fund complex amid the “volmageddon”...
June 11, 2021 | By Jeffrey Kutler
When bitcoin climbed past $50,000 in mid-February, the digital-asset buzz was less about a new price spike than about the mainstreaming of cryptocurrencies and the institutionalization of the asset...
February 26, 2021 | By John Hintze
The COVID pandemic has caused a crueler drop in sales of fixed index annuities (FIAs) than insurers have seen since the Great Recession, creating a new opportunity for inventive managers of...
December 11, 2020 | By Michael Shari
During a four-week stretch in February and March, the combination of pandemic, politics and related economic fallout caused the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) to spike by a historic 475%, from 14.38 to...
September 4, 2020 | By Michael Shari
As the world heads toward a global recession, with plunging equity markets and countries facing severe economic downturns, there are uncertainties and strong beliefs that have practically divided the...
June 19, 2020 | By Nupur Pavan Bang and Anisha Sircar
In 2017, Alfred Eskandar and Tony Barchetto drummed up a fresh idea to manage the volatility risk of investing in the U.S. stock market. Dubbed truBeta, their process uses risk analytics to build...
February 21, 2020 | By Michael Shari
Currently, we're in the longest period of fairly stable markets, but it is still critical to get ready for a potential downturn. Traditional measures of risk in investment portfolios are always...
October 4, 2019 | By Alla Gil
Investor interest in private equity and the need to diversify and hedge risk in volatile markets are working to the advantage of hedge funds, according to speakers at a recent New York Alternative...
May 24, 2019 | By Juliette Fairley
The business of investment management has a technology crisis on its hands - a crisis that not only undercuts the ability of institutions to compete, but costs firms huge sums of money. Firms are...
March 15, 2019 | By Sebastian Ceria
Regulation of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, historically focused on corporate-issuer disclosures, is turning increasingly toward investors, according to indexing and risk...
March 15, 2019 | By Juliette Fairley
In a 2005 study of CEO employment contracts at U.S. corporations, only three out of 375 cited sexual harassment as grounds for termination. “I haven't done a follow-up study,” says co-author and...
January 4, 2019 | By Juliette Fairley
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