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Private Markets Giant Hamilton Lane Says Credit Fears Are Overblown

Co-CEO Erik Hirsch says his firm’s data on thousands of funds and portfolio companies shows defaults remain low and leverage flat.

February 10, 2026

February 10, 2026

Private Markets Giant Hamilton Lane Says Credit Fears Are Overblown

Co-CEO Erik Hirsch says his firm’s data on thousands of funds and portfolio companies shows defaults remain low and leverage flat.

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October 8, 2025

October 8, 2025

A Veteran Investor on What Outsiders Don’t Yet Understand About Japanese Stocks

Janus Henderson’s Junichi Inoue says that the country’s equity culture has fundamentally changed in the past decade.

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June 13, 2025

June 13, 2025

The Florida Pension Fund Managers Who've Beaten the S&P 500 Over 50 Years

Bowen, Hanes & Co., which oversees the pensions of Tampa police and firefighters, outdid the index by an annualized 2 percentage points with the equity portion of its portfolio.

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April 17, 2025

April 17, 2025

Build a Index for Market Surveillance Say These Credit Risk Pros

FHLB San Francisco's counterparty credit team talks quantitative tools to track how traders and investors perceive creditworthiness.

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February 18, 2025

February 18, 2025

These Managers Pick Stocks Once a Year. Here’s What Keeps Them Busy

For the annual rebalance of Hennessy Cornerstone Mid Cap Fund, its overseers turn to a formula. The strategy has outpaced the S&P 500 for more than two decades.

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May 31, 2023

May 31, 2023

Hedge Fund Veteran Deepak Narula Says Agency MBS Offer Rare Opportunities Now

The founder and CIO of Metacapital Management points to wide spreads to Treasuries and unprecedented prepayment speeds.

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November 26, 2021

November 26, 2021

Ranch Investor Found His Inefficient Market in Big Sky Country

Beartooth Group's Robert Keith went looking for a market less picked over than the Wall Street equities world and landed in Montana.

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May 15, 2020

May 15, 2020

The Father of the Fear Gauge Says He Feels Reassured by the VIX

Robert Whaley, who built the Cboe’s popular volatility index almost 30 years ago, says he still watches it daily.

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March 9, 2020

March 9, 2020

Taxes May Be a Bigger Deal Than Alpha, This Fund Manager Says

Few people think to look at the impact of capital gains on their mutual funds.

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September 28, 2019

September 28, 2019

Nuclear Fusion Could Rescue the Planet From Climate Catastrophe

Nuclear fusion could be the clean energy the world needs—and private companies are now working on machines to harness it.

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October 9, 2018

October 9, 2018

The Big Problem With Machine Learning Algorithms

The potential for tapping new data sets is enormous, but the track record is mixed.

Sberbank PJSC Opens Russia's Biggest Data Processing Center

November 30, 2017

November 30, 2017

This Is the Low-Profile, High-Stakes World of Venture Lending

Making loans to cool startups sounds easy. As Manuel Henriquez of Hercules Capital shows, it's a tricky business.

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October 5, 2017

October 5, 2017

This Is How to Create the Top Emerging-Markets ETF

Entrepreneur Kevin Carter went looking for China exposure and ended up starting a fund that’s risen 62 percent this year.

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June 14, 2017

June 14, 2017

Quantum Computing Might Be Here Sooner Than You Think

Teams at startups, universities, government labs, and companies like IBM are racing to build computers that could potentially solve some problems that are now intractable.

Quantum Computing Might Be Here Sooner Than You Think

August 19, 2016

August 19, 2016

Train Your Brain for Trading (No, Really!)

Recent research finds that traders looking at prices use parts of the brain associated with reading other people.

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August 15, 2016

August 15, 2016

The Panama Shortcut

Football-field-size LNG tankers have a new route to Asia.

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June 21, 2016

June 21, 2016

Surveillance: 10 Things to Know About Markets as You Look Ahead

We asked these financial professionals for their best investing insights. Here’s what they said.

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June 15, 2016

June 15, 2016

An ETF Pioneer Says Gold Flashed a Buy for Emerging Markets

3Edge Asset Management's Stephen Cucchiaro says that the metal suggested a turn in dollar strength early this year.

Swiss Gold Bars Inside Solar Capital Gold Zrt. As Gold Climbs To One-Year High

March 7, 2016

March 7, 2016

Counting Cranes in Mumbai

New buildings rising in India's biggest city point to the country's outsize economic promise—and frame its continuing challenges.

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October 13, 2015

October 13, 2015

Intech's Adrian Banner Uses Volatility to Beat the S&P 500

The $51 billion institutional shop's CEO says his firm's math-based approach to investing enables it to pick up gains from stock price swings.

Intech's Adrian Banner Uses Volatility to Beat the S&P 500