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September 2023
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Super Quantum: Using Artificial Intelligence to Transform Asset Management (A)

By: Feng Zhu and Kerry Herman

Dr. Zhang, CEO of Super Quantum, an AI-driven hedge fund, is considering an investor’s request to withdraw their funds as the markets experience volatility. Should he pull the investor’s funds? View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Volatility; Financial Markets; Investment Funds; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Services Industry

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November 2007
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Asset Allocation III

By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford

Keywords: Resource Allocation; Assets

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November 2007
Supplement

Asset Allocation II

By: Joshua D. Coval, Erik Stafford, Rodrigo Osmo, John Jernigan, Zack Page and Paulo Passoni

Keywords: Resource Allocation; Assets

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01 Jun 2006
News

A Capital Asset

five-year stint managing the multibillion dollar United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds, Cohen was tapped by National Trust for Historic Preservation head Michael Ainslie (MBA ’68) to be the nonprofit’s senior... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

February 2021
Teaching Note

Satrix: Competing in the Passive Asset Management Industry in South Africa

By: Mark Egan

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April 2006
Module Note

Asset Allocation: A Half-Course Module Note

By: Luis M. Viceira

Provides an overview of the main ideas and structure of a 15-session module on long-term asset allocation designed for MBA graduate students and investment professionals. This module is taught as part of a full-length, 30-session elective class on investment management... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Investment; Decisions; Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Teaching; Theory

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September 1996
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Howard, Shea & Chan Asset Management (D): Sales Presentation, Video

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Presents a sales presentation, allowing students and executive participants to develop a set of criteria for such a presentation and apply them to a real one. View Details

Keywords: Presentations; Sales; Financial Services Industry

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September 2017 (Revised July 2021)
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Asset Allocation at the Cook County Pension Fund

By: Emil Siriwardane, Juliane Begenau and Yuval Gonczarowski

Nickol Hackett, chief investment officer of the Cook County Pension Fund, is responsible for investing the fund’s $9 billion worth of assets on behalf of the employees of Cook County, Illinois. Like many other defined-benefit pensions at the time, the Cook County... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions

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24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

enough money to prosper, low-income families' access to health benefits, their civic participation, family stability, and mental wellbeing are all diminished by their low success rate in building assets. Peter Tufano, Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

December 2009
Article

Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns

By: Christopher J. Malloy, Tobias J. Moskowitz and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

We provide new evidence on the success of long-run risks in asset pricing by focusing on the risks borne by stockholders. Exploiting micro-level household consumption data, we show that long-run stockholder consumption risk better captures cross-sectional variation in... View Details

Keywords: Asset Pricing; Stocks; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management

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2008
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Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns

By: Christopher J. Malloy, Tobias J. Moskowitz and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

We provide new evidence on the success of long-run risks in asset pricing by focusing on the risks borne by stockholders. Exploiting micro-level household consumption data, we show that long-run stockholder consumption risk better captures cross-sectional... View Details

Keywords: Asset Pricing; Stocks; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management

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January 2017 (Revised February 2017)
Teaching Note

Omar Selim: Building a Values-Based Asset Management Firm (A) and (B)

By: George Serafeim

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January 2011 (Revised June 2012)
Teaching Note

Martingale Asset Management LP in 2008, 130/30 Funds, and a Low-Volatility Strategy (TN)

By: Robin Greenwood and Luis M. Viceira

Teaching Note for 209-047. View Details

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01 Oct 2000
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Laura Scher of Working Assets

Laura S. Scher (MBA '85) is something of a modern-day Robin Hood, an entrepreneurial activist who redistributes the wealth of the marketplace to those in need. Through her company, San Francisco based Working Assets Funding Service, this... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

2014
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Zenglibao: An Internet Money Market Fund Run by Tianhong Asset Management Co., LTD.

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Yongjun Jin and Xiaohui Li

Mobile Internet has imposed an increasing impact on traditional finance. Firstly, some financial business modules can be operated via mobile Internet, and the corresponding transaction cost is greatly reduced. For example, payment by traditional bank draft is replaced... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Internet; China; Mobile Devices; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; China

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21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

operating clause would scare off anyone who might wish to buy the Patriots and move the team to another city. It would also deter local buyers who might have hoped to swing a public-private deal to construct a new facility. For Kraft, it was a double win. With better... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

November 2008 (Revised March 2009)
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South Pole Carbon Asset Management-Going for Gold?

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Jost Hamschmidt and Mikell Hyman

In late 2008, Christoph Sutter, CEO of South Pole Carbon Asset Management, reflects on his firm's early success at originating carbon credits in developing nations and selling them to governments and firms that seek to offset their greenhouse gas emissions voluntarily... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Non-Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Strategy

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2014
Teaching Note

Zenglibao: An Internet Money Market Fund Run By Tianhong Asset Management Co., LTD. (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Yongjun Jin and Xiaohui Li

Mobile Internet has imposed an increasing impact on traditional finance. Firstly, some financial business modules can be operated via mobile Internet, and the corresponding transaction cost is greatly reduced. For example, payment by traditional bank draft is replaced... View Details

Keywords: Internet; China; Mobile Devices; Finance; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; China

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