Finance – Knowledge@Wharton

Knowledge@Wharton is the online business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

• Living to 100: How Will We Afford Longer Lives?

  As more Americans live longer lives, innovative products based on public-private partnerships could help to finance them, according to experts at the 2020 Pension Research Council Symposium.

• Oil Price Shock: What It Means for Producers and Consumers

  With drastic declines in consumer demand, the COVID-19 pandemic has battered the oil markets in ways that we haven't seen before.

• Why Free-lunch Strategies Cause Market Crashes

  The tools of quantitative finance provide enormous benefits to investors, but if they are misused or misunderstood, they can create illusions of safety that destroy wealth, says Bruce I. Jacobs, co-founder of Jacobs Levy Equity Management.