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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

Green Swans

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

Interrogations

Robert Reynolds

Putnam Rising

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.

Interrogations

Yngve Slyngstad

Confident but Cautious

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ai5000 Daily News

NEWSMAKERS - JULY 30, 2010

Hong Kong Billionaire Beats Consortium of SWFs to Buy UK Power Grids

Tycoon Li Ka-shing's more than $9 billion deal for three UK power grids makes him one of the biggest owners of Britain's infrastructure.

TECHNOLOGY/PRODUCTS - JULY 30, 2010

ETFs Enjoy Robust Inflows in First Half of 2010, SSgA Says

In the first half of 2010, State Street Global Advisors’ (SSgA) U.S. ETFs total client assets fell 0.4% to $772 billion but remain strong.

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.

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