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Understanding Markets Through Complexity and Human Behavior
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The Automation Ahead - A New Content Series
This series breaks down the reality of GenAI’s current state, guiding you through the innovations, possibilities, and risks of this new wave of automation.
Industry Future
A Comprehensive Guide to ETFs (2nd Edition): Module 1: ETF Features and Evolving Landscape
This first of three modules of an updated CFA Institute Research Foundation guide explores the properties, benefits, mechanics, and history of exchange traded funds (ETFs). It describes the factors behind ETF’s exponential growth and evaluates the U.S. ETF landscape.
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.
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The Factor Mirage: How Quant Models Go Wrong
New research from ADIA Lab indicates that factor investing may struggle not from data flaws but from models that confuse correlation with causation, a “factor mirage” that misguides portfolios, say Marcos López de Prado, PhD, and Vincent Zoonekynd, PhD.
Private Equity's New Exit Playbook
Arnold Madanha, CFA, notes that the rise of continuation funds marks a structural shift in private equity’s traditional exit routes, as higher interest rates and valuation gaps have curtailed M&A and IPO activity.
Why Financial Advisors Struggle to Embrace Bitcoin’s Rise
Bitcoin challenges the fundamentals of finance taught in schools, learned through work, and regulated by governments, forcing professionals to rethink what money and value really mean, Rob Price, CFA, writes.
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Alternative Credit: The Rise of Consumer Lending
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