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Two senior Wall Street executives complained this week that over-regulation is discouraging initial public offerings. JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie...
Victor Haghani, James White and Jerry Bell of Elm Partners Management conducted a fascinating experiment to investigate the value of getting...
Cliff Asness, co-founder of AQR Capital Management, made the news recently with the provocative claim that financial markets are getting less...
What is the probability that Donald Trump will win the 2024 presidential election? Assuming you’re not a superforecaster with access to inside...
Does legalized online sports betting strain family finances? A recent study, “Gambling Away Stability: Sports Betting's Impact on Vulnerable...
A teachers’ pension fund in Ohio is embroiled in a controversy reminiscent of a streaming series, with a reform movement and the state’s attorney...
Private equity has been in the news frequently in the last few weeks, and not in a good way. The Teachers Retirement System of Texas this month...
A recent Financial Times opinion piece laid out how illiquidity makes private equity hazardous for investors. The Bank of England’s Nathanaël...
Last week, the Supreme Court overturned a decades-old legal doctrine that gave federal regulators the power to interpret unclear laws. This touched...
Junk science Aaron Brown | 6.25.2024 1:20 PM Thirty years ago, the sociologist Craig Reinarman observed that...
University of Chicago researchers Alex Kim, Maximilian Muhn and Valeri V. Nikolaev fed OpenAI’s GPT4 large language model the anonymized financial...
Celebrity fund manager and activist investor Bill Ackman just sold 10% of his investment management company in a deal that valued Pershing Square at...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission appears to have little respect for the power of markets, going by their proposal to ban futures contracts on...
Active exchange-traded funds have seen record inflows in recent years, taking assets under management to $630 billion. That’s a lot of money but...
Statistics Aaron Brown | 5.7.2024 10:45 AM After surviving a disastrous congressional hearing, Claudine Gay was forced...
“No other fund manager made more money for people than Bill Gross,” wrote Karen Dolan of Morningstar Inc. when naming the bond king the...
Rising interest rates and the fear of giving back stock market gains are pushing pension fund managers to move capital from stocks to bonds. Goldman...
Last July, the House Financial Services Committee approved two major pieces of legislation aimed at creating a regulatory framework for the...
Social Media Aaron Brown | 4.2.2024 10:45 AM In his 1996 book, The Vision of the Anointed , economist Thomas Sowell...
Among the many too-good-to-be-true financial stories is the Alpha Architect 1-3 Month Box ETF, known by its ticker BOXX, that offers Treasury bill...
One of the hottest products for retail investors the last couple of years is the single-stock option-income exchange-traded fund. While the basic...
Never mind the dense 247 pages. Just the title of Securities and Exchange Commission’s new rule concerning trading of US Treasuries, deemed the...
What does a November 2023 hockey bet have to do with the 2008 financial crisis and the Chunnel connecting England to France? A lot, and the relation...
Poverty Aaron Brown | 1.23.2024 2:45 PM Matthew Desmond is a Princeton University professor and the recipient of a...
Large language models, such as ChatGPT, are threatening to disrupt most areas of life and work. Financial trading is no exception. The potential for...
Blackstone Inc.’s private equity fund for wealthy individuals is a harbinger of two trends that many expect will transform investment management in...
Health Care Aaron Brown | 1.5.2024 10:00 AM " Serious Medical Errors Rose After Private Equity Firms Bought...
The philosopher George Santayana famously wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” but also, less famously,...
It should be no surprise that Bitcoin sold for over $44,000 this week, more than double its March 13 price. Going back to 2014, it has taken the...
Two years ago, the Journal of Finance — the most prestigious journal in the field — retracted a published paper because of data errors, either the...