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      • 05 Jan 2021
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Using Behavioral Science to Improve Well-Being for Social Workers

      For child and family social workers, coping with the hardships of children and parents is part of the job. But that can cause a lot of stress. Is it possible for financially constrained organizations to improve social workers’ well-being using non-cash rewards, recognition, and other strategies from behavioral science? Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans describes the experience of Chief Executive Michael Sanders’ at the UK’s What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care, as he led a research program aimed at improving the morale of social workers in her case, “The What Works Centre: Using Behavioral Science to Improve Social Worker Well-being.”  Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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      • 20 Aug 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Best Ideas

      by Miguel Antón, Randolph B. Cohen, and Christopher Polk

      The “best ideas” in investment managers’ portfolios generate statistically and economically significant risk-adjusted returns over time, and they systematically outperform other positions in the portfolios. Investors can gain substantially if managers choose less-diversified portfolios that tilt more towards their best ideas.

      • 29 Jul 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Two Case Studies on the Financing of Forest Conservation

      by Andrew Baxter, Connor Cash, Josh Lerner, and Ratnika Prasad

      Case studies about The Conservation Fund and Sonen Capital highlight three broad lessons about fresh approaches to the ownership and management of forestland.

      • 05 Jun 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

      by Sean Silverthorne

      3Questions A startup fund's ability to attract a major first investor is a signal to others that the investment pool is just fine for entering. Shawn Cole and Rob Zochowski answer questions about anchor investors. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 09 Apr 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

      by Rachel Layne

      Grants or investments? Philanthropic organizations have multiple funding tools available, but choosing the wrong one can dilute the benefits, according to research by Benjamin N. Roth. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 15 Nov 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Do Fire Sales Create Externalities?

      by Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam

      This paper contributes to our understanding of the role of large institutional investors in securities markets, providing evidence that the structure of the mutual fund industry increases the risks of costly "fire sales."

      • 11 Sep 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice

      by Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy

      Mutual fund managers solve their complex “search problem” for superior investable returns by tracking—and trading—on very particular sets of firms and insiders. These sets are chosen strategically and remain very persistent over time, as does the outperformance these insiders’ trades afford to the given fund managers.

      • 21 Sep 2017
      • Cold Call Podcast

      State Street’s SHE: Investing in Women Leaders

      Re: Vikram Gandhi

      As investors increasingly demand investment opportunities that match their social beliefs, financial services firms are busy designing new products. In this podcast, Vikram Gandhi discusses the expanding influence of impact investing and how State Street Global Advisers is responding. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 30 Jan 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

      by Michael Blanding

      Index funds are the major shareholders in many large- and medium-sized public companies, but their passive investment nature offers few checks on those companies’ executives, says Luis Viceira. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 17 Nov 2015
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      How Activist Investors Became Respectable

      by Joseph Fuller

      Once reviled as villains operating on the fringes of the market, activist investors like Carl Icahn are now powerful forces at work in the mainstream of business, says Professor Joseph Fuller. And their influence is only growing. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 12 Nov 2015
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Catering to Investors Through Product Complexity

      by Boris Vallee & Claire Célérier

      This paper investigates the rationale for issuing complex securities to retail investors.

      • Working Paper Summaries

      How do Private Equity Fees Vary Across Public Pensions?

      by Juliane Begenau and Emil Siriwardane

      As state and local defined-benefit pensions increasingly shift capital from traditional asset classes to private-market investment vehicles, this analysis shows that public pensions investing in the same private-market fund can experience very different returns.

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