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About Russell Chaplin

About Russell Chaplin

Investor's Notebook

Up to…

Up to…

With a desire to both quantify and limit various aspects of private real estate funds’ risk, funds’ documentation is written so that risk is unbundled and...

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Investor's Notebook

The Alpha Bet

The Alpha Bet

One of the first things that we learn in life is the alphabet.  Through it, we form words and are able to communicate with one another using a common...

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The Fund Manager

Time for a BS detector

Time for a BS detector

In engineering, noise is a disturbance around a signal and engineers have become good at extracting signals from the noise.  In investing, noise comes in many forms and...

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Investor's Notebook

Prudent?

Prudent?

Since the financial crisis in 2008, interest rates have been low and borrowing costs for commercial property similarly low.  With such low rates, relatively high yields...

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Investor's Notebook

Cautiously optimistic?

Cautiously optimistic?

A famous quotation, probably erroneously dedicated to the financier J. P. Morgan, is that, when asked for an outlook on the stock market, he replied, “it will...

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