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  Investments - Journal Vol. 24

•  Letter from Rob Heyvaert
•  Letter from Shahin Shojai, Editor

Alternatives

•   Operational alpha, alternative sources of returns
  
  Bernard Bachmann, Head of Operational Due Diligence, RMF Investment Management
  Michael Buerer, Deputy Head of Operational Due Diligence, RMF Investment Management
•   The future of structured credit, what comes after the credit crunch
  
  Frédérik Arns, Consultant, Capco
  Gabriel Schild, Managing Principal, Capco
•   The myth of financial supermarket or why Citi s business model has not and will not work
  
  Kosrow Dehnad, Adjunct Professor of Operational Research and Financial Engineering, Columbia University, and Head of Quantitative Trading, Samba Financial Group
•   Housing, equities, risk, and portfolio management from a U.K. perspective
  
  John Smullen, University of Greenwich
  Keith MacDonald, Partner, Capco
•   Greed, deception, and willing ignorance the anatomy of the asset-backed commercial paper crisis
  
  Edwin H. Neave, Professor Emeritus, Queen’s School of Business
  Lewis D. Johnson, Professor of Finance, Queen’s School of Business
  
  
•   The gross truth about hedge fund performance and risk the impact of incentive fees
  
  Chris Brooks, Professor in Finance, ICMA Centre, University of Reading
  Andrew Clare, Chair in Asset Management, Faculty of Finance, Cass Business School
  Nick Motson, FME/ESRC Fellow, Faculty of Finance, Cass Business School
  
  
•   An alternative approach to alternative beta
  
  Thierry Roncalli, Head of Investment Products and Strategies, SGAM Alternative Investments, and Professor of Finance, University of Evry
  Jérôme Teïletche, Professor of Finance, University of Paris-Dauphine
  
•   How to explain the foreign expansion of Russian firms
  
  Kalman Kalotay, Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva
  
  
•   Evaluating art as an alternative investment asset
  
  Raya Mamarbachi, MBA Programme Member, Henley Business School
  Marc Day, Associate Professor of Operations Management, Henley Business School
  Giampiero Favato, Academic Fellow in Corporate Finance, Henley Business School
•   An artifact of law U.S. prohibition of retail hedge funds
  
  Houman B. Shadab, Senior Research Fellow, Regulatory Studies Program, Mercatus Center, George Mason University
  
  
•   Mobilizing for the next wave of U.S. payment innovation
  
  James McCauley, Principal Consultant, Capco
  Rahul Kapur, Managing Principal, Capco
  Suresh Gupta, Partner, Capco
  
  
•   Gutenberg and the social media revolution, an investigation of the world where it costs nothing to distribute information
  
  Richard Stacy, Social Media Consultant, Publicis Consultants
  
  

Management

•   Hypothetical versus actual earnings profiles, implications for social security reform
  
  Olivia S. Mitchell, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor; Professor of Insurance and Risk Management and Business and Public Policy, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
  John W. R. Phillips, Chief, Population and Social Processes Branch, Division of Behavioral and Social Research, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
  
•   Understanding the cost difference between intraday and overnight liquidity
  
  Joydeep Bhattacharya, Associate Professor of Economic Theory, Iowa State University
  Joseph H. Haslag, Kenneth Lay Chair in Economics, University of Missouri
  Antoine Martin, Research Officer, Money and Payments Studies Function, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  
•   Microfinance, an attractive dual return investment opportunity
  
  Raimar Dieckmann, Senior Economist, Deutsche Bank AG
•   Mutual fund investors, sharp enough
  
  Alan R. Palmiter, Professor of Law, Wake Forest University
  Ahmed E. Taha, Professor of Law, Wake Forest University
•   Can research committees add value for investors. An analysis of Lehman Brothers Ten Uncommon Values recommendations
  
  Boris Groysberg, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
  Paul Healy, James R. Williston Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
  Yang Gui, Vice President, Algorithmic Trading, ITG, Inc.
•   Shaken, not stirred, analysis of a truly dynamic portfolio strategy
  
  Jürgen Vandenbroucke,Expert Product Development Manager, KBC Asset Management/Product Development
  
•   Financial instruments to hedge commodity price risk for developing countries
  
  Yinqiu Lu, Economist, IMF
  Salih Neftci, Professor of Finance, Baruch College, City University of New York
•   Global excess liquidity does it matter for house and stock prices on a global scale
  
  Ansgar Belke, Professor of Macroeconomics, University of Duisburg-Essen, and Research Fellow, IZA Bonn
  Walter Orth, Research Associate, Department of Statistics and Econometrics, University of Cologne
  Ralph Setzer, Economist, Deutsche Bundesbank
  
  
•   Conditional performance in different states of the economy, evidence from U.K. unit trusts
  
  Patricia Ntozi-Obwale, Lecturer in Finance, University of Dundee
  Jonathan Fletcher, Professor, University of Strathclyde
  David Power, Professor of Business Finance, University of Dundee
  
•   Retirement savings portfolio management, simulation evidence on alternative behavioral strategies
  
  Jeff Dominitz, Senior Economist, RAND Corporation
  Angela Hung, Economist, RAND Corporation
  
•   Keeping the bad guys out, risk management and retail payment innovation
  
  Michele Braun, Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  William Roberds, Research Economist and Policy Adviser, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
  Richard Sullivan, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
  
•   The role of banking and financial policies in promoting micro, small, and medium enterprises
  
  Piotr Cizkowicz, Warsaw School of Economics
  Krzysztof Rybinski, Warsaw School of Economics, and Former Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Poland and member of the Polish Financial Services Authority