BlackRock's freshly published Hedge Fund Outlook Spring 2026 makes a striking case: the current market environment - shaped by AI-driven disruption, supply shocks, geopolitical volatility, and ...

One of the most interesting features of the current crypto markets is the elevated level of dispersion, or range of returns across different parts of the market. In today's liquid markets, sectors ...

When should a founder act on a strong belief about an opportunity, knowing that rivals assessing the same opportunity may hold very different views? This paper studies entry decisions when ...

A move to close that gap would not surprise me at all. Additionally, the spread between the S&P 500 dispersion index and the ...

Dispersion is a fundamental measure of risk and opportunity in the stock market; it measures how differently stocks are performing, or are expected to perform. The Dispersion Index was launched in ...

Performance dispersion is the distribution of medium-term price trends in any chosen investment universe. For example, in 2022 the S&P 500 lost 19%. The bottom top 25% performers posted an average ...

There’s a lot of potential for active managers to add value in today’s market environment. However, that does not mean that all active managers can or will provide value. Anu Ganti, senior director, ...