Finance

Penn Launches Strategic Collaboration with Ripple to Accelerate Innovation in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

Blockchain digital graphic Penn Launches Strategic Collaboration with Ripple to Accelerate Innovation in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency PHILADELPHIA, PA, June 4, 2018 — The Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania today announced the launch of The Ripple Project at Penn. This joint-school effort is supported…Read More

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Thinking of growing your company via a merger or an acquisition? It’s important for strategic buyers to understand what’s shaping the market and the competitive environment when making such decisions. And it’s just as critical, says Wharton finance professor Robert Holthausen, to consider two external forces at work in today’s M&A market: cross-border activity, and the role of private equity.…Read More

At the Whiteboard with Chris Geczy

Chris Geczy Is diversification dead? Not entirely, but with the democratization of Modern Portfolio Theory it’s not your father’s 60/40 world anymore. The key insight of Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT): Don’t weigh an asset’s risk independently, but by how it contributes to the portfolio’s overall risk. MPT, the brainchild of economists Harry Markowitz…Read More