
Investment Banking Industry Trends: What Is Actually Reshaping Deal Flow?
Fee pressure, private capital and automation are changing how deals get made — and how banks get paid.
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Fee pressure, private capital and automation are changing how deals get made — and how banks get paid.

Rebalancing is risk control first: Vanguard’s 1926 through 2014 test puts the untended 50/50 portfolio at 13.2 percent volatility against 9.9 percent for the…

The SPIVA scorecards and ICI fee data agree on the long-run record: most active funds trail, and costs explain much of why. The exceptions are narrow.

Neither. The honest answer is that the two methods answer different questions, and each adds edge only in the narrow territory where its assumptions hold.

Three cases, one discipline: the method that forces an investor to price the outcome they expect and the two they don't.