Strong governance, disciplined risk awareness, and a distinctive culture that creates opportunities for growth across the state of Hawaii are contributing to the ERS of Hawaii’s 7% rate of return. In our latest Improving Alpha...
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Improving Alpha Podcast: Top Book Recommendations from Season Three
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The Improving Alpha podcast has wrapped up its third season, featuring a diverse lineup of guests from across the alternative asset landscape. These leaders shared deep, practical insights on managing billion-dollar portfolios...
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Improving Alpha: Geeta Kapadia on Endowment Innovation, Secondaries, and Defining the Future of Alternatives
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Separating the noise and hype from strategic asset allocation strategies is essential when running a $1BN endowment portfolio. Inflation concerns, innovation strategies, regulation, the AI bubble debate, and more always seem to...
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Improving Alpha: Aswath Damodaran on Applying a Dabbler Perspective to AI, ESG, and Wall Street
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Can an asset manager or asset owner be anything but a specialist in today's world of institutional investing? Generalists are extremely rare in this industry but if you cross paths with one, their insights on AI, ESG and Wall...


