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Where Do Australian Active Equity Managers Outperform?
Do active Australian equity managers possess skill and if so, in what types of stocks? The authors analyse the holdings and gross returns of a broad universe of Australian equity managers and decompose their excess returns into those resulting from passive exposures to risk factors (size, style and momentum) and those from stock selectivity.

PDF The Tao of Alpha
The Tao of Alpha, written by Tammer Kamel, President of The Iluka Consulting Group presents an insight on misconceptions regarding the definition and pursuit of alpha.
PDF Seven Sins of Fund Management
The Seven Sins of Fund Management: A Behavioural Critique was published by James Montier the Global Equity Strategist of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. Montier is one of Britain's leading experts on behavioural finance, a mix of economics and psychology that examines how investor traits and behaviour can affect financial decisions.
PDF The Soul of Capitalism
Jack Bogle, Vanguard's founder, presents his remarks on the changes to the nature of capitalism ...
PDF Global Property
Trends emerging within international property make investment in this sector inevitable...
PDF Defining Alpha
Jason MacQueen argues that most industry participants incorrectly use the term "alpha".
PDF Hedge Fund Evaluation
Vanguard's IC&R says investing in hedge funds is not as simple or safe as often portrayed.
PDF Liquidity
Sir Andrew Large, deputy governor of Bank of England writes for Financial Times on liquidity.
PDF Hedge Fund Biases
Vanguard IC&R notes on a Bloomberg.com article on hedge fund performance reporting.
PDF Hedge Fund Returns
Hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than is commonly supposed...
PDF China's Slowdown
Paper from Vanguard's IC&R on implications of China's exceptional real GDP growth...
PDF Finding Real Alpha
Paper from Rolf W. Banz on skill-based active management.
PDF Investment Committees
Vanguard's view of investment committee best practices...
PDF Financial Simulation
Merits and limitations of historical simulation and Monte Carlo simulation approaches...
PDF Market Indexes
How the most prominent benchmark providers construct and maintain their measures...
PDF Alternative Investments
Understanding private equity performance measurement and its role in a portfolio...


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