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1. Where ESG Fails They did it. They finally did it. For years, Institutional Investor has been desperately trying to figure out the trick to get its readers to consume content on ESG – because the sad truth is that even our best efforts to detail the inner workings of this world are often the journalistic equivalent of a tree falling in the woods. The trick? Talk about the failures of ESG, as authors Michael Porter, George Serafeim, and Mark Kramer did in this year's most popular opinion piece. Hey, it's a start. → READ NOW opinion 2. A Mysterious Force Took Over Private Equity. I Know What It Is. The surprising link behind the decline of value, hedge funds, and alpha everywhere → READ NOW opinion 3. Where EBITDA Is Just BS Between add-backs, adjustments, and general shenanigans, the EBITDA multiples offered up by private companies frequently mask the truth. → READ NOW SPONSORED Video: Economist Perspective: Divergent Yield Curves Yield curve and global growth → VIEW NOW opinion 4. The Insane Story of How an Early Quant Investor Went Rogue Acid attacks. Attempted murder. A girlfriend allegedly injecting HIV into a former lover. Nothing was apparently beyond the pale for one of the fathers of computer-based investing. → READ NOW opinion 5. The Hedge Fund That Wasn't Bruce Shi of Thrones Capital claims in Forbes to be one of the most successful investment managers in the world. An investigation by columnist Angelo Calvello suggests he's something else. → READ NOW   © 2019 Institutional Investor, LLC. All material subject to strictly enforced copyright laws. Please read our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy before using the site. Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC | 1120 Avenue of the Americas | New York, NY 10036 Subscribe to this email Share this email UNSUBSCRIBE