Category Archives Governance & risk

Outsourcing by pension plans is on the increase: it’s about a lot more than just the selection and monitoring of money managers

In business and in investment, values are not an optional add-on to the purpose of making money. Recognizing one’s impact is now part of the deal.

Review of The End of Theory by Richard Bookstaber, which explores how to better model the behavior of markets in a crisis using agent-based modeling.

Institutional investors largely act as agents on behalf of others. This changes how social responsibility is framed but does not make the issue go away.

As in a box of chocolates, investors are all looking for something different. These differences can transform investment strategy into a non-zero-sum game.