In This Issue
Cover Story
One Big Happy Family:
The Global Crisis Tests
Postwar Alignments
Features
Asleep at the Switch?
Corporate Boards’ Culpability
in the 2008 Financial Crisis
Rock Steady: Moving Toward
a Steady-State Economy
Controlled Dangerous Substance:
The CDS Market Goes Straight
Rise and Shine: ARRA Stimulates
the Municipal Funding Market
The Place from Whence We Came:
Microorigins of the Financial Crisis
The Prudent Man Standard:
Legal and Investing Implications of
LDI Safeguards for Pension Risk
Departments
From the
Executive Director
Polyphony, Not Cacophony
Hot Zones
The Hierarchy of Risk:
A New Approach to Risk Management
Hot Zones
Sliced, Diced, Chopped, Chunked:
A Taste of Structured Investments
Hot Zones
GIPS 2010: Major Changes to Global
Standards Concern Investors
Worldview
Another BRIC in the Wall?
South Africa May Join the
Vanguard of Developing Markets
Abstract
Safe House: The Housing Market and the End of the Recession
Abstract
Schrödinger’s Morning Paper:
The Impact of Barron’s on
Stock Prices
Abstract
Smoke and Mirrors: BICs,
the PPIP, and the Fallacies of
Expectations-Based Risk Management
Education for Practice
The Value of Convenience:
Programming a Firm Value Calculator on Your PDA
Education for Practice
Penny for Your Thoughts:
Black–Litterman’s Incorporation of Analysts’ Views Both Helps and Hinders Portfolio Optimization
Careers
Privilege of Peerage:
The Value of Professional Designations
Interview
In Recovery: Looking Forward
with Abby Joseph Cohen
Book Reviews
Extending the Canon:
New Titles
Final Analysis
Two Cartoons
