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The Business of Investment Management

The Active Management Pretend Game

by Eugene Robin | Research Analyst Let us start by saying that this is not an essay on whether or not a large pool of institutional

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Portable Nonsense

While this is a wonderfully snarky clip from the Economist, if I were paying “2 and 20,” I am not sure I would think it’s

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So We Get Questions

Q — Should we be concerned that you have a small investment team? How can you cover hundreds of stocks? Won’t you miss things? A

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Notes From the Front Line: UCLA

This report is published for information purposes only. You should not consider the information a recommendation to buy or sell any particular security, and this

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In Support the of Home Team

by Ben Claremon | Research Analyst It was less than two years ago that I was sitting with some of my UCLA Anderson classmates, desperately

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A Plea for Higher Interest Rates

What’s great about Jim Grant writing for the unwashed minority (those who toil in official positions in Washington) is that you can re-link and comment without

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Trying This at Home

We reprint with permission a recent email from a sell-side colleague who we hold in high regard, despite his familiarity with the institutional investment consulting

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