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The Research Foundation Review 2017 summarizes the offerings from the CFA Institute Research Foundation over the past year—books, literature reviews, workshop presentations, and other relevant material.
Governance is a word that is increasingly heard and read in modern times, be it corporate governance, global governance, or investment governance. Investment governance, the central concern of this modest volume, refers to the effective employment of resources—people, policies, processes, and systems—by an individual or governing body (the fiduciary or agent) seeking to fulfil their fiduciary duty to a principal (or beneficiary) in addressing an underlying investment challenge. Effective investment governance is an enabler of good stewardship, and for this reason it should, in our view, be of interest to all fiduciaries, no matter the size of the pool of assets or the nature of the benef...
The Research Foundation Review 2018 summarizes the offerings from the CFA Institute Research Foundation over the past year—books, literature reviews, workshop presentations, and other relevant material.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Investing is about forecasting returns. It is hard to call yourself an investor if you don’t think you have insights about expected returns. There are many ways to estimate expected returns, from fundamental to quantitative approaches and everything in between. #2 The challenge of combining fundamental and quantitative approaches is how to marry them. I will make suggestions in this chapter. #3 The capital asset pricing model is a basic way to estimate expected returns for investors. It links expected returns to an objective measure of risk and current interest rate levels. However, there are issues with the model. #4 The Capital Asset Pricing Model is a theory that was developed to explain the relationship between risk and return, but it has been criticized for its flaws. It was developed by Nobel Prize winners William Sharpe and John Markowitz, but many academics have argued that it is flawed.
Research Foundation Review 2019 presents the offerings from CFA Institute Research Foundation during 2019. We start with an overview, summarize the year's output, and end with other relevant material, such as awards and recognition.
The Research Foundation Review 2016 summarizes the offerings from the CFA Institute Research Foundation over the past year—monographs, literature reviews, workshop presentations, and other relevant material.
This comprehensive reference delivers a toolkit for harvesting market rewards from a wide range of investments. Written by a world-renowned industry expert, the reference discusses how to forecast returns under different parameters. Expected returns of major asset classes, investment strategies, and the effects of underlying risk factors such as growth, inflation, liquidity, and different risk perspectives, are also explained. Judging expected returns requires balancing historical returns with both theoretical considerations and current market conditions. Expected Returns provides extensive empirical evidence, surveys of risk-based and behavioral theories, and practical insights.
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