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Intangible assets—things like brand reputation, proprietary knowledge, and organizational capabilities—have become more valuable than physical factories and equipment with many studies estimating that intangibles now account for roughly one third to one half of corporate capital. However, measuring these assets remains one of finance’s great challenges. Andrea Eisfeldt, Barne...


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Traditionally, balanced portfolios rely on the equity and bond risk premia to generate returns. The canonical 60% equity/40% bond allocation has produced strong long-run results, but its short- and medium-horizon experience includes large drawdowns. Those drawdowns matter not only behaviorally but mechanically, through volatility drag: large losses require disproportionately ...


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Selecting mutual funds is one of the most important jobs investors face. Yet the tool everyone reaches for, the Sharpe ratio, quietly assumes something most real people do not have: the ability, and willingness, to borrow at the risk free rate to lever the “best” fund up or down to their preferred risk level. Once borrowing is realistically restricted, the Sharpe ratio can st...


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Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the investment landscape in ways that extend far beyond algorithmic trading and robo-advisors. One of AI’s most promising applications lies in its ability to process and extract meaning from vast amounts of unstructured text—something that even the most diligent human investors struggle to do at scale. While a skilled analyst mi...


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For decades, long-term investing has been treated as a vague virtue rather than a distinct source of returns. Markets are often assumed to be efficient across horizons, with prices reflecting fundamentals regardless of who holds the asset or for how long. Recent research challenges this assumption by showing that the investment horizon of shareholders itself shapes prices and...


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