Top Five Articles from May: Behavioral Finance, Blockchain, and ESG

1. The Active Equity Renaissance: Behavioral Financial Markets

Jason Voss, CFA, and C. Thomas Howard have questioned many orthodoxies of contemporary portfolio concept (MPT). But what do they suggest to take its place? Behavioral finance.

2. The Fintech Files: Understanding Blockchain

Blockchain is an typically mentioned, hardly ever understood matter. What is all of it about? What adjustments will it carry to monetary companies? What are the advantages and roadblocks? Larry Cao, CFA, requested Jennifer Qin of Deloitte for her tackle these questions.

3. The Active Equity Renaissance: Renaissance Portfolio Management

Dismantling the finance trade’s closet indexing manufacturing unit is a crucial step in The Active Equity Renaissance, observe C. Thomas Howard and Jason Voss, CFA.

4. Shortcuts to Factor Investing: Multifactor Portfolios and Benchmarking

Mark Harrison, CFA, appears at combining elements in multifactor portfolios and considers problems with efficiency measurement in issue investing, on this installment of his Shortcuts to Factor Investing sequence.

5. The Stampede into ESG

The current stampede of asset managers into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing is harking back to one other time and one other trade, says Christopher Okay. Merker, PhD, CFA.

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Susan Hoover, JD

Susan Hoover is at present the editor of Connexions, the CFA Society Leader e-newsletter. Previously, she was the digital editor, Enterprising Investor weblog, CFA Institute for 2 years. Prior to CFA Institute, Hoover labored for McCallum & Kudravetz, PC, and the U.S. Department of the Navy in actual property and labor regulation. Hoover earned the CFA Institute Investment Foundations™ Certificate and holds a BA diploma from Lehigh University and a JD diploma from the Washington College of Law, American University.