Paul Woolley Centre in the media

This page provides the most recent noteworthy articles and/or media clips in which Paul Woolley Centre staff or the Paul Woolley Centre itself were mentioned or interviewed.  

• Does ‘Momentum’ Investing Create Stock Bubbles?
  LSE academics argue that momentum investing exploits active managers who hew closely to stock benchmarks, and stokes a greater propensity for bubbles.
  Chris Dieterich
  Barron's
  5 April 2016

• Breaking the 'curse of the benchmarks'
  Institutional investors’ obsession with short-term performance means money managers are engaging in activity that is “not merely superfluous but wealth-destroying”, causing bubbles, crashes and financial market dysfunction.
  Proinsias O'Mahony
  The Irish Times
  5 April 2016

• Benchmarking ourselves, and the economy, into the ground
  The problem in our financial markets, and by extension in our economy, lies in the benchmarks used to judge and reward fund managers.
  James Saft
  Reuters
  29 March 2016

• Do Benchmarks Distort the Markets?  &  The Curse of the Benchmarks, Part II
  Dimitri Vayanos and Paul Woolley have taken the common idea that benchmarks hamper fund managers one very large step further.
  Morningstar
  23 & 25 March 2016

• Fund managers lose out from benchmarking
  Focusing on research by Dimitri Vayanos and Paul Woolley in an examination of financial benchmarking.
  John Plender
  Financial Times
  15 March 2016

• A new contract for growth
  Short-termism may be caused by the way investors employ fund managers.
  Buttonwood
  The Economist
  15 August 2015

• The Morning Risk Report: How Activist Wolf Packs Work
  Gregory J. Millman
  Wall Street Journal
  19 February 2015

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For earlier interviews, articles and appearances in the media, please browse the Paul Woolley Centre in the media archive