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Richard F. Meyer

Richard F. Meyer is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Professor Meyer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent the first ten years of his career in the Management Services Division of Arthur D. Little, Inc., serving as a... View Details

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Investment Management Workshop

with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Download Brochure Who Should Attend Executives in investment management organizations—including hedge fund firms,... View Details

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

markets. The choice between public pay-as-you-go and privately funded pensions has wide spread implications across all areas of financial research. David explores such implications on Corporate Financing,... View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

Pension Fund Investment Decisions 07 JUL 2020 | Climate Rising Hiro Mizuno, former head of the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund... View Details

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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

2011). Workers embrace outside the offices of Lehman Brothers in Canary Wharf in London, Monday, September 15, 2008. Courtesy of AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth. On October 3, 2008, under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the government addressed the mortgage... View Details

13 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

minority-owned group raising a fund is 60 percent higher in these periods of high racial awareness. They also looked at public pension fund data in states where a minority... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services

12 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

Risk Management to Equity and Credit Analysis Author:Robert C. Merton Publication:CFA Institute Conference Proceedings Quarterly 24 (December 2007) Abstract Traditional conventions of accounting and actuarial science distort the valuation of capital risk in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Sep 2023
What Do You Think?

Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

social, and governance issues at the heart of so-called “stakeholder capitalism.” Corporations that become too visible in support of stakeholder capitalism run the risk of losing public investors, such as pension View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Mar 2023
In Practice

What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

exhaustion after several years of dealing with surprises ranging from shortages and runs on basic goods to the Fed’s limited ability to control or even forecast inflation. Something will also have to be said eventually about the profitable business of inciting runs... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

Carlyle colleagues to raise MBK Partners’ first fund. Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, was an early investor; so was the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Before all that, however, while at Salomon, Kim—still in his... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

11 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

been the attitude toward artificial intelligence within institutional investing? Are investors embracing it? Is there skepticism? Awada: I can tell you from my previous work [as a hedge fund manager] I think that we’re always on the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail

20 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 20

http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dtq013?ijkey=WB7zzaO3bsqcw4t&keytype=ref Pension Fund Design in Developing Economies Author: Luis M. Viceira Publication: In Evaluating the Financial... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink

payments to its pension fund and drawn down all the fund’s cash until there was nothing left but a $50 billion unfunded liability. Capital markets had deemed the island an unacceptable risk. “They had lost... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

address to the American Finance Association, David Scharfstein argues that pension policies have persistent and deep effects on the development of capital markets. The choice between public pay-as-you-go and privately View Details

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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Moody’s, or Fitch. [17] MBSs and CDOs are sold to investors all over the world, including pension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds, hedge funds, and other investment banks. [18] Investors can hedge their CDO or MBS exposure... View Details

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

companies and other financial intermediaries, and hedge funds rated more highly as sources of risk. In addition, 40% of participants stated that pension funds would be at the... View Details

11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

growing dependency ratios at the level of the firm tell us, regardless of where we are in the world. But several deplored what has been done about them. According to Francine McKenna, "There's no pension crisis in the executive suite... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

structure, and a thoughtful investment strategy that aligns with the foundation's mission. CalSTRS Takes on Gun Violence (819079) by Vikram Gandhi and Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme NOVEMBER 2018 (REVISED DECEMBER 2018) In Spring of 2018, Chris Ailman, CIO of the $200... View Details

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Research - Private Capital Project

Srimayi Mylavarapu Founded in 2016, Moonfare headquartered in Europe, was a pioneer in the “democratization” of private equity investments. Historically, private equity was accessible only to institutional investors like pension funds,... View Details

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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment

Pension Investment Fund (GPIF): Incorporating Climate Risk in Investment Decisions Uncovering and Pricing Climate Risk in Long-Term Investments Daniel Schrag on the Science of Forecasting Climate Change:... View Details

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