Myron Scholes on Black–Scholes, Decarbonization, AI, and Parenting
uttu Through his examinations of how uncertainty influences asset prices, Nobel laureate Myron Scholes has helped revolutionize our understanding…
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“Build, Partner and Buy”: AI and the New M&A Model
Amid the current artificial intelligence (AI) hype cycle, companies are jockeying for an edge in this fast-developing sector.…
Do Better ESG Ratings Boost Bond Holders?
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings should reflect the risks that such factors pose to a company’s financial…
Project Finance: Beware Interest Rate Miscalculations
Interest rates are like the weather. We can prepare for typical fluctuations, but sudden changes can still catch…
Book Review: The Economics of the Stock Market
The Economics of the Stock Market. 2022. Andrew Smithers. Oxford University Press. Judging by the behavior of the…
Rethinking Corporate FX Hedging: Seeing the Forest through the Trees
“It often happens that a player carries out a deep and complicated calculation, but fails to spot something…
The Benefits of Using Economically Meaningful Factors in Financial Data Science
Factor selection is among our most important considerations when building financial models. So, as machine learning (ML) and…
How Do Performance Metrics Correlate? Might Fund Managers Cherry-Pick?
Portfolio managers report their risk-adjusted performance using Sharpe, Treynor, information, and Sortino ratios, among other popular metrics. Of…
Small Caps: Party Like It’s 2000?
The legendary musician Prince exhorted us to “Party like it’s 1999,” but today, as a small-cap stock investor,…
The Auto Sector’s Green Transition: Three Roads to Lower Returns?
Three investment return trends related to the green transition concern me. These apply across all sectors but to…