Telling the Real Story

In This Issue: Learning from Experience | Sankofa Tales | The Blame Game Behind every great investment company there lies a story. I’m not talking about the required philosophy-process-people-performance story. That story is important and it must be told well....

Hope for Sisyphus

In This Issue: An Obligation to Communicate | A Tale of Reach and Grasp | Eyefuls of Bark This issue of Excess Returns considers how some investment firms excel at communicating effectively when times are tough. We also provide a few topical favorites from our reading...

Feeding the Elephant

In This Issue: The Elephant in the Room | Protesting Too Much | “Well, I think …” Investment management firms allocate significant time, money and human energy to creating and delivering new business presentations. Yet things can still go terribly wrong,...