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The School Bell Rings: Time for Class!

Musings on Markets

Continuing an annual ritual of long standing, ahead of starting my spring teaching at NYU starting in a couple of weeks, I would like to invite you, if you are interested, to come along for the ride. In short, you can start with the regular class in January 2024 and stretch out the class over 12 months or 18 months, if you want to.

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The (Uncertain) Payoff from Alternative Investments: Many a slip between the cup and the lip?

Musings on Markets

That said, they represent actions that you would take with diametrically opposite views of the same stock (asset), with being long (going short) making sense on assets where you expect prices to go up (down). again a process that has been around a while, but one that has also become formalized and a much larger source of funds.

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A Return to Teaching: The Spring 2023 Edition

Musings on Markets

Starting in late January 2023, I will be back in the classroom, teaching valuation and corporate finance to the MBAs and valuation to the undergraduates, and these classes will continue through May 2023. The class starts with a question of what the end game should be for a business (profitability, value, social good?),

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Does ESG Information Affect Individual Investors’ Portfolio Choices?

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trillion at the start of 2020, a 54.5 Large financial firms such as Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and UBS have started sustainable-investing platforms for their advisers, and they and others are increasingly relying on commercially available ESG data and ratings to gauge companies’ ESG performance. percent increase since 2016 and 35.9