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Assignments written for assessment rather than for readers, reproduced from the manuscripts they were submitted as.

4 articles.

The collapse of State Bank Victoria and Tricontinental

A 1993 assignment on how a conservative savings bank founded in 1851 lost its capital twice over through a merchant banking subsidiary — written by someone who had been working in its Treasury.

An international asset allocation for a billion-dollar fund

A 1993 syndicate assignment: forecast total returns for twelve asset classes across seven markets under five world scenarios, then run them through a mean-variance optimiser and argue with the answer.

Two portfolio management case studies

The Common Fund’s tactical asset allocation scheme, and how Sanford C. Bernstein turned a dividend discount model into a stock selection discipline — written for Applied Portfolio Management in 1993.

What is banking business, and when may a banker speak?

Two questions from a 1993 Finance Law and Tax assignment: how the common law and the Banking Act define carrying on banking business, and the four circumstances in which a banker may disclose a customer’s affairs.

Subjects across the academic work, sized by the number of articles each one appears in. Each one leads to every article on that subject, in whatever category it was filed under.