1. Fama and French: The 5-Issue Mannequin Revisited
How effectively has Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French’s five-factor mannequin defined returns? Derek Horstmeyer, Ying Liu, and Amber Wilkins share their evaluation.
2. Inform Me a Story: Aswath Damodaran on Valuing Younger Corporations
When valuing corporations, “You don’t need to be proper to earn a living,” Aswath Damodaran says. “You simply need to be much less improper than everyone else.” Roger Mitchell considers Damodaran’s insights.
3. The Elephant within the Room: The ESG Contradiction
The inherent battle between the “E,” the “S,” and the “G” in ESG investing can not be ignored. As a lot as we’d want in any other case, the objectives embedded in these initials don’t all the time align with each other, Andrea Webster, Paul Smith, CFA, and Kübra Koldemir contend.
4. How Lengthy Can Russia Face up to the Sanctions?
The toll of the financial embargo on Russia shall be huge, Joachim Klement, CFA, predicts. He goes on to calculate simply how huge.
5. Investing’s First Ideas: The Discounted Money Circulation Mannequin
Brian Michael Nelson, CFA, explains why the DCF mannequin just isn’t solely related to immediately’s market, however stays an absolute necessity.

6. Retirement Earnings: Six Methods
How can we mitigate sequence of returns danger (SoRR)? Krisna Patel, CFA, shares half a dozen methods to safeguard shoppers’ retirement portfolios.
7. Constructing a CAPM That Works: What It Means for At the moment’s Markets
“The capital asset pricing mannequin (CAPM) is a marvel of financial scholarship,” Jacques Cesar writes. “The issue is that it doesn’t all the time work in follow. So, we mounted it.”
8. Fairness Danger Premium Discussion board: Don’t Wager Towards a Bubble?
Cliff Asness, Rob Arnott, Roger G. Ibbotson, and different luminaries discover the character of bubbles and the momentum issue. Paul McCaffrey supplies a synopsis of their dialogue.

9. A Story of Two Fits: The Three Capitals of Profession Success
In response to Eric Sim, CFA, human capital, monetary capital, and social capital helped construct his profession in finance. Paul McCaffrey considers Sim’s compelling private story and the way we are able to apply the teachings to our personal careers.
10. From No to Sure: Persuading Purchasers with the 3Ps Methodology
On this adaptation from Small Actions: Main Your Profession to Huge Success, Eric Sim, CFA, and Simon Mortlock talk about the 3Ps technique — perseverance, perspective, and positivity — and the right way to use it to remodel rejection into approval.
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