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Trends in Asset Management: Smart Beta

Trends in Asset Management, U.S. Economy / Ellen Kinlin

Smart beta might just be the next big thing in investing, but what is it and what can it do for you? At its most basic, smart beta offers investors an alternative to both active and passive management. Active management, which is mostly reliant on a manager’s skill in security selection, seeks to outperform a […]

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Managing Risk / Ellen Kinlin

Women, Risk, and Wall Street When Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, a bestseller detailing the 2008 Financial Crisis, was asked to share the one thing he’d do in order to avoid a future market meltdown, he said, “I would take steps to have 50% of women in risk positions in banks.”

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