Investment Think Tank Services
Investment Management Best Practices

Investment. Business. Government. AI

Sample CIO strategic research and support services on best investment management practices:

• Analyzing and comparing Wall Street's top performing investment funds. What are their key investment strategies and decision-making criteria? What are the lessons learned from the successes and failures of top money managers?
• Why fund managers appear to beat the market in certain periods but not in others?
• Why so many respected money managers and investment funds underperform major market indices, long term? What are the flaws in their investment decision models?
• When does technical analysis work? When it does not work?
• When does fundamental analysis work? When it does not work?
• When does economic analysis work? When it does not work?
• What markets, assets, and sectors to invest in each economic cycle? What are the risks and rewards for each cycle?
• Why do economic and market forecasts fail?
• Why do valuation forecasting models fail?
• How can analysts improve economic forecasting and valuation accuracy? 
• What does the future hold in boom or bust cycles?
• Was the financial crisis of 2008 a black swan event? Or was it a predictable event?
• Why did most professional investors, economists, Nobel prize winners, and intelligence agencies fail to predict the great financial crisis (GFC) of 2008? Why did only a few experts manage to foresee the subprime mortgages / housing bubble and its impact on the economy? How accurate are their market forecasts? Can investors rely on their future predictions?
• Do markets move in random patterns? Is it impossible to time the market? When does market timing work and when it does not work? Can market timing methods be improved?
• How to optimize asset allocations and public equities investment systems to meet various risk profiles and risk-reward objectives?
• How to accurately assess the risks and rewards of different stock investment types?
• How to optimize portfolio diversification for maximum returns and minimum risks?
• How do capital markets work? How do they impact investment decisions?
• How does monetary policy affect capital flows and asset pricing?
• What are the key investment lessons from Bernie Madoff, Enron, WorldCom and other fraud scandals?
• What are the key investment lessons from historical asset bubbles and busts?
• What are the key investment lessons from historical recessions?
• What are the key investment lessons from the financial crisis of 2008?
• What are the key investment lessons from sovereign and private debt defaults?
• Can investors develop a system of investing and trading that will beat the market over the long term?
• Why, when and how the growth investment strategy succeed and fail?
• Why, when and how the value investment strategy succeed and fail?
• Why, when and how the contrarian investment strategy succeed and fail?
• Why, when and how the trend investment strategy succeed and fail?
• Why, when and how the momentum investment strategy succeed and fail?
• Why, when and how the large-cap stocks investment strategy succeed and fail?
• Why, when and how the mid-cap stocks investment strategy succeed and fail?
• Why, when and how the small-cap stocks investment strategy succeed and fail?
• What is the most optimal asset allocation for the highest probable growth with lowest probable risks? 
• How will the rise of activist investors impact the stock market valuations and movements?
• What is the best way to deal with market volatility?