Lectures (Video)
- 1. Finance and Insurance as Powerful Forces in Our Economy and Society
- 2. The Universal Principle of Risk Management: Pooling and the Hedging of Risks
- 3. Technology and Invention in Finance
- 4. Portfolio Diversification and Supporting Financial Institutions (CAPM Model)
- 5. Insurance: The Archetypal Risk Management Institution
- 6. Efficient Markets vs. Excess Volatility
- 7. Behavioral Finance: The Role of Psychology
- 8. Human Foibles, Fraud, Manipulation, and Regulation
- 9. Guest Lecture by David Swensen
- 10. Debt Markets: Term Structure
- 11. Stocks
- 12. Real Estate Finance and Its Vulnerability to Crisis
- 13. Banking: Successes and Failures
- 14. Guest Lecture by Andrew Redleaf
- 15. Guest Lecture by Carl Icahn
- 16. The Evolution and Perfection of Monetary Policy
- 17. Investment Banking and Secondary Markets
- 18. Professional Money Managers and Their Influence
- 19. Brokerage, ECNs, etc.
- 20. Guest Lecture by Stephen Schwarzman
- 21. Forwards and Futures
- 22. Stock Index, Oil and Other Futures Markets
- 23. Options Markets
- 24. Making It Work for Real People: The Democratization of Finance
- 25. Okun Lecture: Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis, Part I
- 26. Okun Lecture: Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis, Part II
Financial Markets - Lecture 9
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Lecture 9 - Guest Lecture by David Swensen
David Swensen, Yale's Chief Investment Officer and manager of the University's endowment, discusses the tactics and tools that Yale and other endowments use to create long-term, positive investment returns. He emphasizes the importance of asset allocation and diversification and the limited effects of market timing and security selection. Also, the extraordinary returns of hedge funds, one of the more recent phenomena of portfolio management, should be looked at closely, with an eye for survivorship and back-fill biases.
Prof. Robert Shiller
ECON 252 Financial Markets, Spring 2008 (Yale University: Open Yale) http://oyc.yale.edu Date accessed: 2009-01-06 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA |
