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- February 2021 (Revised March 2022)
- Teaching Note
Zillow Offers: Winning Online Real Estate 2.0
By: Marco Di Maggio, Luis M. Viceira and Julia Kelley
- October 2020 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
Divesting Harvard's Endowment
By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Holly Fetter
By early 2020 Harvard University was facing growing pressure from students, faculty, and alumni to divest its $40 billion endowment of financial stakes in fossil fuel producers. Its previous policy of avoiding the issue was quickly becoming outdated—$21 trillion of...
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Keywords:
Divestment;
Harvard University;
ESG;
Higher Education;
Investment Portfolio;
Environmental Sustainability;
Strategy;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Green, Daniel, Luis M. Viceira, and Holly Fetter. "Divesting Harvard's Endowment." Harvard Business School Case 221-009, October 2020. (Revised February 2024.)
- October 2020 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Francisco Partners Private Credit Opportunity Fund
By: Luis M. Viceira, John D. Dionne, Soracha Prathanrasnikorn and Ari Sunshine
In April 2020, Scott Einsenberg, the Head of Credit at the private equity firm Francisco Partners, is deciding whether to go ahead with extending a private lending agreement to Eventbrite, Inc. (NYSE: EB), a leading global event management and online ticketing...
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Viceira, Luis M., John D. Dionne, Soracha Prathanrasnikorn, and Ari Sunshine. "Francisco Partners Private Credit Opportunity Fund." Harvard Business School Case 221-002, October 2020. (Revised June 2021.)
- August 2020
- Article
Macroeconomic Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks
By: John Y. Campbell, Carolin E. Pflueger and Luis M. Viceira
Our new model of consumption-based habit generates time-varying risk premia on bonds and stocks from loglinear, homoskedastic macroeconomic dynamics. Consumers' first-order condition for the real risk-free bond generates an exactly loglinear consumption Euler equation,...
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Keywords:
Consumption-based Habit Formation;
Consumption Euler Equation;
Time-varying Risk Premia;
Inflation Dynamics;
Bond-stock Correlation;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Bonds;
Macroeconomics
Campbell, John Y., Carolin E. Pflueger, and Luis M. Viceira. "Macroeconomic Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks." Journal of Political Economy 128, no. 8 (August 2020): 3148–3185.
- July 2020
- Case
Mortgage Backed Securities and the Covid-19 Pandemic
By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Luis M. Viceira and Dean Xu
In April 2020, global financial markets were still reeling as the COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly across the world. Global equity markets had initially fallen by 30% in response to the pandemic, and high-yield credit markets had dropped by nearly 20%. In contrast,...
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Keywords:
COVID-19;
Mortgage-backed Securities;
Health Pandemics;
Financial Markets;
Assets;
Resource Allocation;
Financial Instruments;
Decision Making
Siriwardane, Emil N., Luis M. Viceira, and Dean Xu. "Mortgage Backed Securities and the Covid-19 Pandemic." Harvard Business School Case 221-010, July 2020.
- July 2020
- Case
Sustainable Investing in Private Markets at TIFF
By: Luis M. Viceira and Victoria Sienczewski
Viceira, Luis M., and Victoria Sienczewski. "Sustainable Investing in Private Markets at TIFF." Harvard Business School Case 221-005, July 2020.
- August 2019 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
Paradigm Capital Value Fund
By: Luis M. Viceira and Elena Corsi
Karl Jan Erick Hummel had founded Paradigm Capital Value Fund in 2007 together with Columbia Business School Professor Bruce Greenwald, an expert in value investing and now chairman of the fund. The fund followed the principles of value investing to their target...
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Keywords:
Investment Activism;
Investment Portfolio;
Financial Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Investment Funds;
Financial Services Industry
Viceira, Luis M., and Elena Corsi. "Paradigm Capital Value Fund." Harvard Business School Case 220-014, August 2019. (Revised November 2022.)
- January 2019 (Revised November 2019)
- Case
Ajeej Capital: Investing in Emerging Markets
By: Luis M. Viceira and Eren Kuzucu
In October 2007, Tarek Sakka and Fouad Dajani launched Ajeej Capital, the first independent investment advisory in the MENA region. Fittingly named ajeej, an Arabic word that translates to “growth and propagation in a chaotic setting,” the firm’s AUM grew from $20...
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Keywords:
Security Selection;
Investments;
Growth;
Culture;
UAE;
Finance;
Asset Management;
Emerging Markets;
Capital Markets;
Investment;
Growth Management;
Risk Management;
Middle East;
Saudi Arabia;
Dubai;
United Arab Emirates;
Egypt;
North Africa
Viceira, Luis M., and Eren Kuzucu. "Ajeej Capital: Investing in Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Case 219-029, January 2019. (Revised November 2019.)
- January 2019 (Revised March 2020)
- Teaching Note
Blackstone Alternative Asset Management in 2018
By: Emil Siriwardane and Luis M. Viceira
- January 2019 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Blackstone Alternative Asset Management in 2018
By: Emil Siriwardane, Luis M. Viceira and Shawn O'Brien
In early 2018, Blackstone announced that John McCormick would succeed Tom Hill as President and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM), the largest fund-of-hedge funds in the world by a sizeable margin. As new CEO, McCormick must...
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Keywords:
Asset Management;
Expansion;
Strategy;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Financial Services Industry
Siriwardane, Emil, Luis M. Viceira, and Shawn O'Brien. "Blackstone Alternative Asset Management in 2018." Harvard Business School Case 219-063, January 2019. (Revised March 2020.)
- December 2018
- Teaching Note
Puerto Rico's COFINA Bonds: Hold or Fold?
By: Adi Sunderam, Luis M. Viceira and Shawn O'Brien
- December 2018
- Teaching Note
Baupost Group: Finding a Margin of Safety in London Real Estate
By: Adi Sunderam, Luis M. Viceira and Shawn O'Brien
- September 2018
- Supplement
Prudential Financial and Asset-Liability Management
- July 2018
- Teaching Note
Prudential Financial—General Motors Pension Risk Transfer: Back to the Future?
By: Luis M. Viceira and Shawn O'Brien
Teaching Note for HBS No. 213-126.
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- October 2017
- Case
Quantopian: A New Model for Active Management
Keywords:
Big Data;
Hedge Fund;
Crowdsourcing;
Investment Fund;
Quantitative Hedge Fun;
Algorithmic Data;
Analytics and Data Science
Fleiss, Sara, Adi Sunderam, Luis M. Viceira, and Caitlin Carmichael. "Quantopian: A New Model for Active Management." Harvard Business School Case 218-046, October 2017.
- September 2017 (Revised January 2018)
- Case
Puerto Rico's COFINA Bonds: Hold or Fold?
By: Adi Sunderam, Luis M. Viceira and Aldo Sesia
Sunderam, Adi, Luis M. Viceira, and Aldo Sesia. "Puerto Rico's COFINA Bonds: Hold or Fold?" Harvard Business School Case 218-023, September 2017. (Revised January 2018.)
- 2017
- Article
Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds
By: John Y. Campbell, Adi Sunderam and Luis M. Viceira
The covariance between U.S. Treasury bond returns and stock returns has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1953–2009, it was unusually high in the early 1980s and negative in the 2000s, particularly in the downturns of...
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Campbell, John Y., Adi Sunderam, and Luis M. Viceira. "Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds." Critical Finance Review 6, no. 2 (2017): 263–301.
- 2018
- Working Paper
Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors
By: Luis M. Viceira and Zixuan (Kevin) Wang
This paper conducts a theoretical and empirical investigation of global portfolio diversification for long-horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and transitory discount rate shocks to asset prices and returns. An increase in the cross-country...
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Keywords:
Investment Portfolio;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Diversification;
Capital Markets;
Global Range
Viceira, Luis M., and Zixuan (Kevin) Wang. "Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-085, March 2017. (Revised July 2018.)
- August 2016
- Case
APG Group: Managing Pensions for the Future (Abridged)
By: Luis M. Viceira and Elena Corsi
- June 2016 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Prudential Financial and Asset-Liability Management
By: Mark S. Seasholes, Adi Sunderam, Luis M. Viceira and Emily A. Chien
Seasholes, Mark S., Adi Sunderam, Luis M. Viceira, and Emily A. Chien. "Prudential Financial and Asset-Liability Management." Harvard Business School Case 216-076, June 2016. (Revised March 2017.)