2024 Projects
| Benchmarking Benchmarks in the Pension Fund Industry (Richard Evans, University of Virginia, Juan-Pedro Gomez, IE University, Linlin Ma, Peking Univeristy, Yuehua Tang, University of Florida) |
Rethinking Private Markets as an Asset Class (Gregory Brown, Christian Lundblad, UNC Chapel Hill) |
Designing ESG Benchmarks |
2023 Projects
| Portfolio Design Issues for Institutional Investors: Asset Allocation in Public and Private Markets, Active Management, and Portfolio Concentration (Profs Keith Brown, University of Texas, and Christian Tiu, University at Buffalo) |
Choosing Pension Fund Investment Consultants (Aleksander Andonov, University of Amsterdam, Matteo Bonetti, De Nederlandsche Bank, and Irina Stefanescu, Federal Reserve Board) |
The Rise of Alternatives |
2022 Projects
| The Cost of ESG Investing (Laura Lindsey, Seth Pruitt, and Christoph Schiller, Arizona State University) |
Is There a Performance Penalty to Sustainable Bond Investing (Ji Min Park and Neil D. Pearson, University of Illinois) |
The Cost of Sustainable Investing |
2021 Projects
| Real Effects of Environmental Activist Investing (S. Lakshmi Naaraayanan, London Business School; Kunal Sachdeva, Rice U.; and Varun Sharma, London Business School) |
The Case for Actively Managed Funds (Allan Timmermann, UC San Diego and Russell Wermers, U. of Maryland) |
Environmental Externalities of Hedge Fund Activism (Pat Akey, U. of Toronto and Ian Appel, Boston College) |
2020 Projects
| Strategic Asset Allocation (Redouane Elkahmi, U. of Toronto; Jacky S.H. Lee, HOOPP; and Marco Salerno, U. of Toronto) |
Pension Fund Allocations to Private Equity and Portfolio Risk and Return (Arthur Korteweg, USC and Stavros Panageas, UCLA) |
Diversity and Inclusion and Portfolio Returns: Is there a trade-off? (Prashant Bharadwaj, Amanda Bauer, and Frances Lu, UC San Diego) |
