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Yes, Short-Termism Really Is a Problem

Harvard Business Review

” On the other side, noted economist and hedge fund adviser Larry Summers cautions that reforming “quarterly capitalism” would risk driving us toward “Japan’s keiretsu system, which insulated corporate management from share price pressure by tying large companies together.” Either explanation is plausible.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

LTCM’s model continued to predict that it was properly hedged against a potential Russian default; the insight that it actually needed — that it was under-hedged and exposed to liquidity risk — could only have come from outside of the model. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail.

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What Good Is Impact Investing?

Harvard Business Review

Even in the most hard-nosed of private equity firms or hedge funds you will find that people align with strategies that mean something to them, that they’re passionate about. Private equity or hedge funds through the ‘80s and the ‘90s, exactly the same story. Noble: With family offices, there is this intergenerational play.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations. You have to be a macro hedge fund, and not only do you the hedge fund manager have to have nerves of steel, your clients have to have nerves of steel. They tend to be followed by declining prices.

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