Are Your Data Governance and Management Practices Keeping Pace with the AI Boom?
As financial services firms scramble to keep pace with technological advancements like machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), data governance (DG) and data management (DM) are playing an increasingly important…
8 best secured credit cards of September 2024
Fortune Recommends™ has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. Fortune Recommends™ and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. Secured credit cards are a type…
Book Review: Default | CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina’s $100 Billion Debt Restructuring. 2024. Gregory Makoff. University of Georgetown Press. In his autobiography, preeminent financier William R. Rhodes notes a phrase inscribed…
Conundrum Cubed: Scope 3 for Financials
Scope 3 disclosures are complex, and Category 15 (Investments) is an obscure segment intended to cover emissions that arise from one company having a stake in another (i.e., financial transactions)1.…
Common Knee Problems and How to Address Them
Properly functioning, pain-free knees are vital for maintaining an active and independent lifestyle. Your knees play a critical role in providing mobility, stability and support for numerous daily activities, from…
Steve Blank Lean LaunchPad @Stanford 2024 – 8 Teams In, 8 Companies Out
This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. We just finished the 14th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. The class had gotten so popular that in 2021 we started teaching…
Hedge Funds: A Poor Choice for Most Long-Term Investors?
Hedge funds have become an integral part of institutional portfolio management. They constitute some 7% of public pension assets and 18% of large endowment assets. But are hedge funds beneficial…
Senior cannabis use: Increasing substance abuse disorders among Medicare beneficiaries
Older Americans aren’t just using cannabis more, they’re also consuming the sometimes-legal-sometimes-not drug in dangerous ways. From 2017 through 2022, rates of health care encounters involving cannabis-related disorders increased among…
Did Inflation Kill the CAPM?
Pim van Vliet, PhD, is the author of High Returns from Low Risk: A Remarkable Stock Market Paradox, with Jan de Koning. High inflation and expensive equities lead to a negative…
Steve Blank Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2024 – Lessons Learned Presentations
We just finished our 9th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. Hacking for Defense, now in 60 universities, has teams of students working to understand and help…
