Book Review: Purpose and Profit
Purpose and Profit: How Business Can Lift up the World. 2022. George Serafeim. HarperCollins Leadership. In Purpose and Profit: How Business Can Lift up the World, George ...
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War and Ethics: What Are the Investment Community’s Responsibilities?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had ramifications throughout the global investment community. There are the obvious repercussions: the rising volatility in the equity and ...
Tricks of the Private Equity Trade, Part 1: Value Drivers
Investors’ faith in the genius of private equity (PE) fund managers has reached ever greater heights amid new records in fundraising, deal volume, and asset valuations. These trends ...
Eight Reasons Why Africa Is Primed for Impact Investing
“You cannot be an impact investor without considering emerging markets. Investing in Africa presents both financial and impact opportunities.” — Jennifer Kenning, CEO and ...
Tricks of the Private Equity Trade, Part 2: Leverage
The essence of maximizing the internal rate of return (IRR) lies in the total amount of leverage contracted to finance a transaction. The less equity a buyout firm has to fork out, ...
Asset Owners “COP” In on Climate Change
The UN Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC) is set to convene the 27th annual Conference of the Parties, commonly known as COP27, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, next week. The goal is to ...
The Alchemist’s Paradox, Central Bank Sovereignty, and the Fate of Crypto
“It is difficult not to marvel at the imagination which was implicit in this gargantuan insanity. If there must be madness something may be said for having it on a heroic scale.” — ...
FTX: Crypto Is the Cure, Not the Cause
FTX is simultaneously the biggest fraud and the culmination of the largest banking crisis in the history of the crypto industry. But the FTX debacle has very little to do with crypto ...
NEXCOM NexCOBOT unit joins NVIDIA Halos AI Systems Inspection Lab
NEXCOM is working with NVIDIA on functional safety for humanoid and AI robots. Source: NEXCOM At GTC Paris this week, NEXCOM Group announced that its NexCOBOT Co. unit has joined the NVIDIA Halos ...
Private Markets: Guardians at the Gate?
Earlier this year, the head of the US Department of Justice’s anti-trust unit vowed to crack down on the buyout sector’s aggressive deal-making practices. What that implied wasn’t ...
Top 10 Posts from 2022: Fama and French, Damodaran, the Equity Risk Premium
1. Fama and French: The Five-Factor Model Revisited How well has Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French’s five-factor model explained returns? Derek Horstmeyer, Ying Liu, and Amber ...
Diversity and Investment Performance: What Trade-Off?
Is there a trade-off between diversity and investment performance? It’s a common question with a definitive answer: No That’s my conclusion after conducting an extensive review ...
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