Has the science of economics gone astray by borrowing ideas from physics? Economics should instead borrow ideas from evolutionary biology, writes @Drew Estes, CFA, JD. After all, early economists were the first to recognize evolutionary processes. Drawing insights from Charles Darwin, Thomas Malthus, Richard Dawkins, and Warren Buffett, Estes shows how evolutionary theory is the best tool for assessing the sustainability of corporate profits in #EnterprisingInvestor.
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Our members and charterholders advance market integrity, trust, and transparency in their professions to build more sustainable, inclusive, and prosperous societies. With a heritage of over 75 years, CFA Institute has 200,000 members in 160 locations around the world, providing an unparalleled network of visionary leaders. Our rigorous CFA Institute qualifications and education offerings are designed to support professionals in their practice areas and build confidence with our clients and partners. Our world-class Research & Policy Center offers an unbiased forum for industry leaders, regulators and subject matter experts to help shape policy and drive positive change. As we are faced with increasingly complex challenges such as climate change, inequality, geopolitical conflicts and much more, we are focused on collaborating with current and future members to set and uphold standards to ensure positive, sustainable progress around the globe.
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Find out what investment professionals are really talking about at Asia-Pacific’s leading research hub this week. #ARXCFAInstitute 1️⃣ APAC Climate Action Progress Report https://cfainst.is/3YC9c2I 2️⃣ Forces Driving Healthcare Spending and Innovative Drug Development https://cfainst.is/3LUtm08 3️⃣ CFA Society Beijing Podcasts: China Charter Chat https://cfainst.is/3AapEwG More on CFA Institute Asia Pacific Research Exchange: https://cfainst.is/3y3rLSt
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NEW RESEARCH: “Factor-Mimicking Portfolios for Climate Risk” in the Financial Analysts Journal. Authors Gianluca De Nard, Robert Engle, and Bryan Kelly propose and implement an approach to forming an optimal hedge portfolio of publicly available sustainable funds. In an extensive empirical out-of-sample performance test, they demonstrate the superior all-around performance delivering markedly higher and statistically significant alphas and betas with the climate risk indices. CFA Institute Members can read the full article: https://lnkd.in/eamm-Mq2 Luis Garcia-Feijoo, Ph.D., CFA, @William N. Goetzmann, Allison Adams, Research and Policy Center
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What topics does the Private Equity Certificate cover? What are the prerequisites to enroll? Who is this certificate for? Watch our Senior Director of Content Development Curriculum & Learning, Azmi Özünlü answer all these questions, and more in this unmissable video.
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Campbell Harvey, Professor of Finance at Duke University, and author of "DeFi and the Future of Finance,” speaks about his famous theory linking an inverted yield curve and impending recessions. He also shares his perspective on the current volatile market and the #FederalReserve’s potential actions. Tune in for an enlightening conversation filled with expert analysis and valuable investment insights. https://cfainst.is/43l3y5n
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Significant deviations from the traditional cap-weighted benchmark are required to deliver stronger risk-adjusted performance over the long term, according to Joseph Simonian, Ph.D. Namely, choosing stocks that target explicit exposures to rewarded factors and applying a well-diversified weighting scheme to manage stock-specific risks, he writes for #EnterprisingInvestor.
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