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Public Asset Management: Keynote Speaker Sessions
Hosted by the World Bank Group and the Financial Analysts Journal
Exponential Wealth: Centuries of Stock and Bond Returns
With Roger Ibbotson, PhD, and Laurence Siegel | Part 2 of 2
Investor Perspectives: Quarterly Reporting
By Sandra J. Peters, CPA, CFA and Matthew P. Winters, CFA, CPA
Private Market Investment in the EU: Prudent Access for Retail Investors
By Alex Lehmann
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Capital Markets
Understanding the Growth of Private Markets: Structural Shifts in the Investment Industry
Private markets now shape capital formation, portfolio construction, and financial stability. This report examines private markets’ growth, risks, and implications for investors, policymakers, intermediaries, and the investment profession.
Technology
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Finance: A Framework for Structural Change
This report addresses how artificial intelligence could reshape finance by changing how investors process information, allocate capital, manage risk, define professional skill, and preserve accountability in an increasingly automated system.
Industry Future
The Total Portfolio Approach (TPA): A Practical Guide for Navigating the Transition to TPA
Explore the total portfolio approach (TPA), its advantages over traditional asset allocation, and the governance, culture, technology, and leadership needed for adoption. Learn from leading asset owners and gain practical guidance for transitioning to TPA.
Sustainability
Investment Innovations Toward Achieving Net Zero
CFA Institute Research and Policy Center has convened net-zero thought leaders and investment luminaries to break down the big ideas around achieving net zero. They provide practical guidance for investors, asset managers, investment professionals, and regulators.
Blogs
Deleveraging Is a Capital Allocation Decision
Mustafa Iqbal shows why free cash flow is not shareholder cash, and how repairing the balance sheet can strengthen common equity without an immediate payout.
Structural Reforms are Creating New Global Investment Opportunities
Rohit Goel, CFA, and Apoorv Bhargava examine signals that can help investors distinguish durable change from political theater in emerging and developing markets.
Opening Public Markets Without Lowering the Bar
Public markets depend on trust. Investors need confidence that listed companies meet meaningful standards, that disclosures are timely and comparable, and that market prices reflect information available to everyone. Fan Yang explains why CFA Institute opposes broadly weakening public-market safeguards.
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Conflicts of Interest in Continuation Funds: Part II in a Series on Ethics in Private Markets
Unlocking AGMs: From Votes to Voice in Asia-Pacific
Financial Analysts Journal, Third Quarter 2026, Vol. 82, No. 3
The Equity Risk Premium
Private Credit: Market Structure, Fund Design, and Retail Access
Conversations with Frank Fabozzi, CFA, Featuring Francesco Fabozzi
Infrastructure Debt: Alternative Credit to Finance the Future