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ai5000 Magazine

Features

A Profile of No One

Europeans (effete liberals!) love it. Public pensions and foundations (goody-two-shoes!) like it. Yet, to American corporate defined benefit plans, socially responsible investing—bearded hippies!—has been anathema to their very existence. Will this ever change?

Column

Environmental Investing: Debunking the Myths

Asset owners often find common cause in arguments against employing environmental investing. By Angelo A. Calvello.

Interrogations

Eric Upin

Guiding an Endowment Vessel

Points of Interest

Wealth in Sin

During the best of times and the worst of times, people will continue to drink, smoke, gamble and fight. Here’s an assessment of the Vice Fund portfolio, firsthand.

Features

Playing the Right Game

The active versus passive investment debate has raged within academic circles for decades without resolution. Unfortunately for the world’s asset owners, this has left them wondering what game—Chase alpha? Ride beta?—they should be playing.

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ai5000 Daily News

BOOK REVIEWS - JULY 29, 2010

From ai5000 Magazine: The Fires by Joe Flood

In a testament to ai5000 Editor-in-Chief Kip McDaniel's judgment of talent (or luck, as some see it), ai5000 book reviewer Sara Nelson critiques ai5000 Editor-at-Large Joe Flood's The Fires -- his first (of what we hope is many) non-fiction novel.

REGULATION/LEGAL - JULY 29, 2010

Ruling: Ex-Hevesi Aide to Proceed to Trial in NY Pension Scandal

In an 82-page ruling, Supreme Court Justice Lewis Bart Stone in Manhattan dropped some of the charges against Hevesi, which include felonies and misdemeanors of bribery, grand larceny, money laundering and fraud.

RISK MANAGEMENT - JULY 29, 2010

From ai5000 Magazine: Green Swans

Shawn Kravetz writes about how Green Swans are both a risk and an opportunity for investors.

ASSET ALLOCATION - JULY 29, 2010

Australian Super Funds Return 4.5% Over 10 Years

Data from SuperRatings reveals that the average super fund returns have fallen under the double-digit mark, as Australians would have fared better by putting their superannuation solely into Australian shares for the past decade.

NEWSMAKERS - JULY 29, 2010

From ai5000 Magazine: Environmental Investing, Debunking the Myths

Asset owners often find common cause in arguments against employing environmental investing. By Angelo A. Calvello.

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