Bubbles Bursting Everywhere

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Janet Becker-Wold explains how recent bubbles inflated and what their popping means for institutional investors.

Have We Learned the Lessons of the GFC About Liquidity?

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After a 10-year bull market in equities, the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) may seem like a distant memory. Yet the financial lessons of those times should be branded into our memory as fiduciaries. As financial markets collapsed, the lack of liquidity across all asset classes had serious consequences and limited the ability of institutional investors […]

What a Difference a Decade Makes!

Happy 10-year anniversary to the Global Financial Crisis! Just a decade ago, some of the world’s largest and most revered financial institutions, along with the modern financial system itself, were left staring into the abyss. And yet, as grave as things appeared in September 2008 and during the months that followed, the global economy just 10 years later finds itself in the midst of one of the longest economic expansions in the modern era.