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,...

The Toughest Question

In This Issue: Relentless Uniformity | Who Doesn’t? | Beyond the Beauty Parade “What is your competitive advantage?” This often is the toughest question that investment companies must answer in their quest to build assets under management—even if the...