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European dept woes from another perspective
2012/06/15Michail playing with his great-grandfather The photo on the left is of my 90-years old grandfather playing with his great-grandson as we visited him in his hometown in southwest Bulgaria a few weeks...
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Risk Management Advantages for UCITS
2012/06/11The recent financial meltdown and prolonged economic weakness have demonstrated again that the classical market risk management models are inadequate to the classical highly volatile and interdependen...
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Inspiring story
2012/03/14I find the story of David Friedberg absolutely inspiring. His company...
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Pension funds as universal owners.
2012/03/10A recent research paper by Roger Urwin from Tower Watson describes in detail the universal owner concept in the context of pension funds. Download link is provided.
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An example from Norway
2012/03/03I visited recently the web site of Norges Bank Investment Management (www.nbim.no). They are managing the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global. It is about $600 billion heavy investment fund...
Read moreInvestment ideas from Luxembourg
2012/02/03I visited a few days ago the Fundsevent 2012 in Luxembourg. It is an excellent meeting place for professionals of the investment fund industry. Organization was perfect. Price was about my pain point;...
Read moreCredit risk
2012/01/13I came upon this interesting blog post by Iain Brown from SAS. He is discussing the key challenges in the development, refinement, calibration and validation of internal credit scoring and risk models...
Read morebloomberg.com now features sustainability
2011/12/13Shareowners need to get back in control over the corporations they own. Check out here for the organization I am supporting. Getting back in power means, among other things, being able to receive rele...
Read moreAn application of the law of small numbers
2011/12/05What is the link between the law of small numbers and a responsible investment strategy? It is far from being obvious. The law of small numbers is a bizarre mathematical rule describing the asymptotic...
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