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Infrastructure funds and project finance

Where do I find information on infrastructure investments and project finance? LSEG Workspace includes a project finance screening tool that allows searching by initiative type, geography, and cost. On the homepage, type ‘Infrastructure 360’ into the... View Details

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

investing, especially for smaller investors, and ultimately created greater returns than most professionally managed mutual funds could deliver. That has made index, or passive, funds wildly popular: For the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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An Evaluation of Money Market Fund Reform Proposals

By: Samuel G. Hanson, David S. Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam

U.S. money market mutual funds (MMFs) are an important source of dollar funding for global financial institutions, particularly those headquartered outside the U.S. MMFs proved to be a source of considerable instability during the financial crisis of 2007–2009,... View Details

Keywords: Balance and Stability; Globalized Markets and Industries; Banks and Banking

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2011
Other Teaching and Training Material

The Fund Industry: How Your Money Is Managed

By: Robert C. Pozen

This is the teaching manual for the third edition of the fund industry: how your money is managed. It contains review and discussion questions and answers for every chapter. It also contains business-school quality cases for most chapters, including assignment... View Details

Keywords: Financial Management; Investment Funds; Money; Financial Services Industry

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Partners Capital: Evaluating Fund Performance

By: Luis M. Viceira

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June 20, 2011
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Don't Hobble Money Market Funds

By: Robert C. Pozen

Keywords: Money; Markets

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May 22, 2011
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Why Balanced Funds are Better

By: Robert C. Pozen

Keywords: Money; Balance and Stability

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May – June 1971
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Funds Control Versus Cost Control

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Cost; Money

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March 2007
Teaching Note

Canyon Johnson Urban Fund (TN)

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Teaching note to 706442. View Details

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Projects; Urban Development; Business and Community Relations; Price; Economics; Financial Services Industry; Los Angeles

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21 Nov 2014
News

Pension Funds Lambaste Private-Equity Fees

13 Jun 2013
News

Celtics CEO starts investment fund

27 Apr 2020
News

How Brands Unwittingly Fund Disinformation

Keywords: Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

30 Nov 2009
News

Business Plan Winner Receives Funding

Keywords: Matthew Prince, MBA '09, & Michelle Zatlyn, MBA '09

October 2007 (Revised November 2007)
Case

Barclays Global Investors and Exchange Traded Funds

By: Luis M. Viceira and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

Provides an overview of the Exchange Traded Funds (EFT) industry and highlights the leadership role that Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has played in this developing asset class. BGI launched its first ETFs under the iShares brand name in 2000, and by mid-2007 BGI was... View Details

Keywords: History; Venture Capital; Asset Management; Stocks; Investment Funds; Leading Change; Expansion; Competitive Strategy; Capital Markets; Global Strategy; Financial Strategy; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Asia; Europe

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20 Dec 2010
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Harvard Business School Launches Fund for Student Start-Ups

September 8, 2020
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Allocation of COVID-19 Relief Funding to Disproportionately Black Counties

By: Pragya Kakani, Amitabh Chandra and Sendhil Mullainathan

This study describes correlations between the dollar amount of relief funding authorized by the US Congress to fund prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to reimburse health care entities for lost revenues, and county-level... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Resource Allocation; Demographics; Race

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18 May 2015
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Professor Weighs In On 'Shortsighted' Proposed Amtrak Funding Cuts

05 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

so-called impact funds, or funds that hope to create positive social or environmental impact. In Anchors Aweigh: Analysis of Anchor Limited Partner Investors in Impact Investment Funds, the authors describe anchors as “generally the first... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

December 2005 (Revised August 2007)
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NewSchools Venture Fund in 2004: At a Crossroads

By: Stacey M. Childress and Caroline Joan King

Founded as one of the first venture philanthropy organizations in the United States in 1998, NewSchools Venture Fund brought new investors and new ideas to public education reform. By 2004, the organization and its founder were reassessing their model and their role in... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Education; Social Entrepreneurship; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States

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