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Global Asset Allocation: Investing in a Time of Debt, Deficits, and Quantitative Easing - Teaching Note
Warnock, Francis E.Teaching Note DARDEN-F-1738TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1738Starting at €0.00
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Global Asset Allocation: Whither the U.S. Dollar? - Teaching Note
Warnock, Francis E.Teaching Note DARDEN-F-1591TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1591Starting at €0.00
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Global Asset Allocation: All That Glitters? - Teaching Note
Warnock, Francis E.Teaching Note DARDEN-F-1646TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1646Starting at €0.00
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Global Asset Allocation: Crude Calculations - Teaching note
Warnock, Francis E.Teaching Note DARDEN-F-1647TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1647Starting at €0.00
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Fix or Float
Warnock, Francis E.Technical Note DARDEN-F-1746-EFinanceA fundamental policy decision every government must make is whether, and to what extent, to manage the exchange rate. This note discusses some of the basic costs and benefits of fixed and floating exchange rates.Starting at €8.20
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Global Asset Allocation: All That Glitters?
Warnock, Francis E.Case DARDEN-F-1646-EFinanceFully updated through mid-2015, this case examines the gold market. To decide whether to initiate a position in gold, the protagonist must assess its features as a strategic component in any portfolio as well as whether the time is right for an opportunistic tactical allocation. Factors that must be considered include how supply and demand for gold will be affected by the paths of real interest rates, inflation expectations, the eurozone debt cri...Starting at €8.20
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Global Asset Allocation: Crude Calculations
Warnock, Francis E.; Hergenroeder, LeoCase DARDEN-F-1647-EFinanceFully updated through end-2017, this case examines the oil market. The protagonist's task was to decide whether her pension fund should allocate some funds to oil, and if so, how much. The decision requires an assessment of oil’s features as a strategic component in any portfolio as well as whether the time is right for an opportunistic tactical allocation. Factors that must be considered include how supply and demand for oil will be affected by ...Starting at €8.20
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Global Asset Allocation: Investing in a Time of Debt, Deficits, and Quantitative Easing
Warnock, Francis E.; Wurster, LizCase DARDEN-F-1738-EBuilt into a pension fund's calculations was a 7% expected return, but in this world of debt, deficits, and quantitative easing (and negative interest rates!), could such a return be counted on? Or was it necessary to reduce the fund's expected returns assumptions? And whether or not assumptions on expected returns were changed, should the fund's global asset allocation be altered? This case provides an opportunity for students to form, in the co...Starting at €8.20
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Global Asset Allocation: Whither the U.S. Dollar?
Warnock, Francis E.; Chandler, MarcCase DARDEN-F-1591-EFinanceFully updated through end-2016, this case is an in-depth study of long-run issues facing the U.S. dollar. Couched in terms of a pension fund manager having to make an international asset allocation decision that requires a 5- to 10-year view on the path of the U.S. dollar, it allows students to debate important factors such as the likely adjustment of private U.S. investors’ international portfolios, central bank diversification away from the dol...Starting at €8.20
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Draghi's Commitment
Warnock, Francis E.Case DARDEN-GEM-0113-EEconomicsFully updated through end-2015, this case examines the eurozone from the perspective of core and periphery long-term rates. By 2010, the “Great Convergence” in eurozone long-term rates during the late 1990s had given way to the “Great Divergence” in which German long-term yields fell to record lows while Greek yields bounced between 20% and 40%. Periphery bond markets improved sharply in late summer 2012 after Draghi committed to do “whatever it ...Starting at €8.20