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Making ESG and Impact Approachable for Venture Capital
By Ros Bazany, Head of ESG and Impact at Antler, a global early-stage venture capital firm.
Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm enabling and investing in the world’s most exceptional people building the defining companies of tomorrow. The team published their inaugural ESG and impact report last year with an aim to share their learnings and roadmap with the industry.
Hearts, Minds, and Votes: Where Smarter Wealth Managers Win
By Simon D. Zais, CAIA, Senior Manager, Business Development & Product Strategy, Egan-Jones Proxy Services.
A GAAP In Understanding: Marty Whitman on the Limits of Disclosure
By Hunter Hopcroft, Managing Director of Portfolio Solutions for Armada ETF Advisors, an ETF issuer focused on quantitative REIT research and asset management.
Hedge Fund Due Diligence With Factor Model Monte Carlo
By Aric Light, Relationship Manager at Merrill Lynch where he advises high net-worth families and institutions.
Understanding Interval Funds
By Randy I. Anderson, Ph.D., CRE Chief Executive Officer Griffin Capital Asset Management Company, LLC/Apollo.
What Is an Interval Fund?
Interval funds are professionally managed, pooled investment vehicles that combine attractive features of both closed-end funds and traditional open-end funds.
The Surprising Reason It Might Be OK To Give in to Greed and Fear
By Michael Edesess, Ph.D, Managing Partner / Special Advisor at M1K LLC.
Sticking to your asset allocation, no matter what, might not be the best strategy.
One of the most fundamental precepts of money management is to recommend an asset allocation based on an investor’s risk tolerance and then stick to it, rebalancing regularly to ensure that the allocation stays close to the original recommendation.
Rise of The Connected Spreadsheet – The “Killer” App For The Modern Data Stack
By Rajeev Dham, Partner, Anders Ranum, Partner, and Aditya Reddy, Associate, at Sapphire Ventures.
A Private Equity Liquidity Squeeze By Any Other Name
By Michael Markov, co-founder, and chairman of Markov Processes International, Inc. (“MPI”), a fintech provider of investment research solutions.
How the anemic deal climate, record low distributions and massive unfunded capital commitments are pushing endowments further into illiquid private equity & venture capital, increasing risk & leverage in portfolios (and markets broadly).
Farmland Values Are Rising - What’s Driving This Growth?
By Artem Milinchuk, Founder & Head of Strategy of FarmTogether.
What Can Football Scouts Teach the VC Industry About Risk Management?
By Ros Bazany, Head of ESG and Impact at Antler, a global early-stage venture capital firm.
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Exploration of CTA Momentum Strategies Using ETFs
By Margareta Pauchlyová, a PhD candidate at The University of Economics in Bratislava, specializing in Behavioral Economics. Quantpedia’s mission is to process financial academic research into a more user-friendly form to help anyone who seeks new quantitative and algorithmic trading strategy ideas.
What is ‘Build-to-Core’ in Commercial Real Estate?
By Margarita Foster, Senior Commercial Real Estate Editor, Loopnet.
Why Some Investors Build a Core Asset Instead of Buying One
In commercial real estate, investing in a “core” asset is considered a safe, relatively low-risk venture. It typically involves buying a well-located, high-quality building that is fully leased to one or more credit-worthy tenants for reasonably long lease terms. Such a building is often relatively new, meaning maintenance and capital costs for the property are low.
10 Reasons Why Marinas Are Great Alternative Investments
By Josh Conley, Chief Operating Officer of New Haven Marinas.
Investing in alternative investments such as hotels, senior housing, and self-storage facilities has long been a strategic play by seasoned investors*, but the up-and-coming play now is marina investments. In the hands of experienced operators, marinas offer higher returns in the face of high inflation and a slowing economy, when compared to traditional real estate investments.
Are Financial Market Indices Actually Diversified?
By Dan diBartolomeo, President and founder of Northfield Information Services, Inc. Based in Boston since 1986, Northfield develops quantitative models of financial markets.
The US Decarbonization Imperative: Once in a Generation Market Opportunity
By Daniel Cruise, Deputy CEO, Tikehau Capital North America and Sharadiya Dasgupta, Founding Partner, Blue Dot Capital.
Skis & Bikes: The Untold Story of Diversification
By Rodrigo Gordillo, CIM®, President & Portfolio Manager of ReSolve Asset Management SECZ.
The article shows how diversification can provide the opportunity to invest in a variety of risky assets – with commensurately high expected returns - but at a fraction of the total risk that an investor would endure with any single asset on its own.
By investing in variety of assets that can thrive in different economic regimes we can protect portfolios against an uncertain future.
A Quick Pour from Capital Decanted: Long-termism - the Greatest Asset in Asset Management
By Claire Sawyer, Associate Director of Content Development, CAIA Association
We know life can get busy, and sometimes you just can’t find the time to tune in to every episode of the Capital Decanted podcast. In this blog post, we’ve summarized our latest episode, giving you all the leading insights without the lengthy listen.
Read on to explore the valuable perspectives shared in the podcast!
Pragmatic Asset Allocation Model for Semi-Active Investors
By Radovan Vojtko CEO of Quantpedia.com - The Encyclopedia of Quantitative Trading Strategies, a quant research company with a mission “to turn financial academic research into a more user-friendly form to help anyone interested in algo/quant trading and systematic investing. Quantpedia helps anyone who seeks new quantitative and algorithmic trading strategy ideas.
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What Are Some of the Risks Associated With Private Credit?
By Yieldstreet
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