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Don’t Fall for Bond Funds That Say They’re Beating the Market

The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig cites MPI CEO and co-founder Michael Markov in an Intelligent Investor column Don’t Fall for Bond Funds That Say They’re Beating the Market – WSJ examining why bond-fund outperformance can reflect risks that aren’t captured by the benchmark. Markov cautions that investors can mistake “unknown risk” with “known skill” when evaluating funds against benchmarks that fail to reflect their underlying exposures.

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Challenges in Analyzing PIMCO Total Return
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The Wall Street Journal Cites MPI Transparency Lab on Ivy Endowments and Private Equity

In the Feb. 15, 2026 Sunday edition of The Wall Street Journal, reporter Heather Gillers examined how elite university endowments are reassessing private equity amid slower distributions and a more crowded market. The story links to MPI’s Transparency Lab and includes an MPI chart (FY22–FY25) illustrating recent endowment performance in the context of Princeton University’s decision to reduce long-term return expectations. MPI’s takeaway: for PE-heavy portfolios, the key question is often less about long-horizon PE returns and more about portfolio flexibility and liquidity management when the opportunity set and cash flows change.
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Wall Street Journal’s Recent Coverage of Harvard’s Bitcoin Bet and MPI

The Wall Street Journal cited MPI’s comparative analysis of Ivy and peer endowment performance and linked to MPI’s Transparency Lab in a December 2, 2025 article, “Harvard’s Big Wager on Bitcoin Came Right Before the Bust,” which examined Harvard’s recent bitcoin investments and how its returns stack up against other leading universities.

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Hunt for Returns Reaches Pakistan

They might find liquidity to be an issue in emerging markets when there is a need to sell,” said Sean Ryan, senior analyst at MPI, a global provider of quantitative research and risk analytics. See The Wall Street Journal for more info.

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Galleon Fund’s Big July 2006 Gain Coincided With ATI Buyout

Dow Jones’ Joseph Checkler continues investigation of Galleon, utilizing MPI’s returns-based style analysis (RBSA) of the Galleon Fund, which shows remarkable outsize performance in 2006.

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A Strategy Aiming to Pump Returns Gains Clout but May Be ‘No Free Lunch’

An article in the Wall Street Journal features analysis and commentary by MPI CEO Michael Markov on the mutual fund 130/30 investment strategy.

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