It is no secret that Harvard and Yale university endowments have managed what countless fund managers failed to achieve. They have beaten the S&P 500 index returns year after year. How can individual investors mimic the stellar performance of these top endowments? This book sheds light on the portfolio management techniques used by these funds. It examines in great depth the theory, process...

The financial services business is invested with snake oil salesmen, argues this new book

For many people, investing is a complicated and unnerving task. The financial numbers are too confusing and product offerings even more so. Ultimately, they find themselves at the doorstep of a broker or financial advisor, or even turning to the financial press, self-help books or financial...

A flowery account of the colourful life of a self-styled prince—who went on to become India’s most famous painter

This tale belongs to a time when poetry would rhyme and art used to faithfully depict the subject being portrayed. Ravi Varma was born in 1848 in Travancore.

He went on to teach himself the European style of painting and eventually became a celebrity painter, establishing...