Sir Paul Tucker is not shy about making an audience feel uncomfortable.
In fact, the crowd was rather ill at ease during Tucker’s presentation at the 70th CFA Institute Annual Conference, and not just because the topic was systemic risk. Read More
31 May 2017
Sir Paul Tucker Diagnoses Threats to the Success of Financial Capitalism
29 May 2017
Campbell R. Harvey Explains Blockchain 101
There has been much talk about blockchain disrupting the financial services industry. Earlier this month, IBM’s vice president of blockchain declared that “2016 was the year of blockchain experimentation,” and “2017 is the year of adoption.” (The fact that IBM has an executive with “blockchain” in his job title is a data point by itself.)
So, what is blockchain? What will it do to our industry? At the 70th CFA Institute Annual Conference, Duke University Professor of Finance Campbell R. Harvey led an extended presentation on the subject. Read More
26 May 2017
C. Thomas Howard Urges Practitioners to “View the Markets as They Are”
“I’m here to tell you there is life after Modern Portfolio Theory.”
That was just one of the notable quotes that C. Thomas Howard gave during his presentation at the 70th CFA Institute Annual Conference. The self-proclaimed “behavioral financial analyst” minced no words explaining why he thinks that markets are not efficient and why investors — once they conquer their behavioral biases — should allocate 100% of their investment portfolios to a concentrated stock fund. Howard implored the audience to “view the markets as they are, rather than as you want them to be.” Read More
Maximize Your Career Success: Pearls from Carla Harris
When Carla Harris married in 2001, The New York Times described the bride as “a quintessential Type-A Wall Streeter — the sort of person who gets impatient for the sun to rise.”
Harris’s characteristic charm and energy were front and center in Philadelphia at the 70th CFA Institute Annual Conference as she shared some of “Carla’s pearls” — hard-earned pearls of wisdom and career advice, gleaned from her nearly three decades on Wall Street. Read More
25 May 2017
Progress Interrupted by Populism
US President Donald Trump wasn’t elected by chance. Nor did Brexit come out of the blue.
Citizens in the western world have become fed up with politicians who don’t listen to them, said Neil Howe, economist, and co-author of The Fourth Turning. Howe was speaking to delegates at the 70th CFA Institute Annual Conference as part of a panel discussion titled, “Progress Interrupted: The Revolt against the Status Quo and the Challenge to 20th Century Institutions.” Read More
Investment Wisdom from the Masters: Risks and Relative Values in Diversified Global Portfolios
Is the stock market overvalued? That depends on who you ask.
Nobel Laureate Robert J. Shiller of Yale University answers “yes,” while Jeremy J. Siegel of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, believes “no.”
When the two economists took to the stage in Philadelphia at the 70th Annual CFA Institute Conference, Gillian Tett, US managing editor, Financial Times, aptly teed up the discussion on investment theory, financial valuations, markets, and the economy saying, “We are lucky enough to hear from two important luminaries, if I dare not say lions, of the financial economic world over the last few decades.” Read More
24 May 2017
Navigating the Markets in a Year of Transition
Elizabeth Corley writes crime novels in her spare time, so it was fitting that there were some suspenseful moments when the Allianz Global Investors vice chair addressed delegates at the 70th CFA Institute Annual Conference.
Corley described 2017 as a year of transition as she shared her outlook on the economy, geopolitics, fiscal and monetary policy, and their implications for global investors. And while she characterized the environment as challenging and struck a cautious tone, she also offered hope and some words of advice for beleaguered active managers. Read More
Differentiate Yourself: Building a Client-Oriented Culture
What do you need to do to survive in the wealth management industry today?
Two words: Differentiate yourself.
23 May 2017
John L. Bowman, CFA: “Our Work Is Just Beginning”
John L. Bowman, CFA, Managing Director, Americas, of CFA Institute addressed the crowd of more than 1600 investment professionals at the 70th CFA Institute Annual Conference in Philadelphia to update them on the progress that they have made in leading the investment profession.
Below is the transcript of his remarks. Read More
The Financial Industry Is Ushering in a New Discipline of Ownership
The finance industry, long plagued by distrust among the public, has reached a tipping point, according to Stephen Davis, associate director and senior fellow of the Harvard Law School program on corporate governance and co-author of What They Do With Your Money: How the Financial System Fails Us and How to Fix It. At the 70th CFA Institute Annual Conference, Davis said that the public’s anger, fueled by a belief that they’ve been unjustly “separated from their money,” has helped to usher in a new “discipline of ownership.” His assessment of state of the financial industry struck a tone of cautious optimism. Read More
