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A Case for Group Risk-Taking

Harvard Business Review

There isn’t anyone successful at managing a mutual or hedge fund who avoids risk; we just need to face it carefully. When results are strong, the manager basks in the glow, prestige, and compensation attached to outperformance. Collaboration Decision making Risk management' What are the potential downsides?

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. [A It feels like it’s got a little bit of Kahneman and Tversky in it. Absolutely.

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