In this animated explainer video, we unpack what portfolio finance is, why it’s gaining traction, and how it’s helping ...

The private credit market is estimated to have reached $3 trillion in assets over the past decade on the promise of delivering higher returns than public credit. But as billion-dollar corporate ...

With the stock market at exhilarating heights, any sign of weakness raises fears of another financial crisis. No wonder market prognosticators are asking: Could we soon face a repeat of 2008 or 2000?

If you wanted to come up with the one-liner about investing most likely to make my head explode, you might try, “The way to choose investments is to just jump on whatever’s done the best over the past ...

Jim Simons is back on top. For the fifth time in seven years, the 83-year-old founder of quant specialist Renaissance Technologies leads Institutional Investor’s Rich List, the definitive ranking of ...

a powerful and large one crashes onto the rock, where a seagull was perched. in the photo you can see the seagull's face standing out, escaping from the force of the water that would have overwhelmed ...

At the Yale School of Management’s summer school for Chinese executives, the bigwig investment speaker had a message: Don’t try what we did. Charles Ellis, the lecturer, oversaw Yale’s famous ...

In 1990, Harvard Business School professor Michael Jensen co-wrote an article making the then-bold claim that CEO compensation should be tied to stock price performance. The point, Jensen and his ...

A large majority of investment professionals admire the achievements of David Swensen and the Yale Model over more than three decades. Wisely, many managers have studied the chief investment officer’s ...

These three words have increasingly been used to describe private equity returns — or at least one popular measure of private equity returns: the IRR. The internal rate of return measures how a ...

Exclusivity is like fiat currency: It only works if everyone believes it’s real. For decades that wasn’t a problem for Seth Klarman’s $29.5 billion Baupost Group. The only way to get money into its ...

Jack Bogle championed index funds as a way to democratize investments. Now the three biggest index fund managers pose a new threat, a former Federal Reserve staffer argues. “Asset management firms ...