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June 2008, Wealth Manager
Is modern portfolio theory compatible with socially responsible investing?
By James Picerno
Harry Markowitz’s 56-year-old portfolio-optimization
theory may be middle aged, but it’s forever young
in the service of tackling the investment challenge
du jour.
June 2008, Wealth Manager
If you think TIPS are the last word in inflation-linked government bonds,
think again.
By James Picerno
Inflation respects no political border, which means
that targeting inflation-linked bonds on a global basis
is a natural for investing strategy. It’s also timely.
Pricing pressures are bubbling in economies around
the world. Consumer prices in OECD countries (a proxy
for the developed world) rose by 3.5 percent in the year
through this past January—the highest pace since 2001.
Inflation is also on the rise in emerging markets, including
China, which reported an 8.7 percent jump in consumer
prices for the year through February—up sharply from 2.7
percent for the same period a year earlier.
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