Year
2018-2022
Client
Institutional Investor
Focus
Illustration
Credits
Art direction: Ed Johnson
Background
Editorial illustrations created for Institutional Investor’s daily articles and features. Each piece was completed with a 1-day turnaround, incorporating photo-collage, portraiture and conceptual illustration.
![VC Investment in Wealth Management Startups Has Plummeted. Was 2019 the Top?](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02fd9f0424a7a711b8c01dacfb9dde3283151b7ed896c97635f08d97ed70cc2d/art_fintech.jpg)
![Why I Broke Wall Street’s Code of Silence](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/631238dfdf6c5fb6b9ec2894ebd7c4d96523ae4aaebbf746ac7c59d5d2b2958c/art_whistleblower.jpg)
![Got Commitment Issues? This Private Credit Trend Isn’t for You.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2ffa5c2ea1f25e8ed9a8328c0c23a0d9230432015899a3bf411d89c89e060bf/art_tree_0222.jpg)
![ESG Has Failed to Outperform for Years. Is this a Fix?](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b84dadfcf447713a9143603adc68424751513acad87fa62a659c68aa7470532/art_esgQuant.jpg)
![Where Performance Fees Don’t Work](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/677347e87e050ccdee9924a6437b793de4cf839ed8cabfddadf9e1b57a1eca47/art_Behavior.jpg)
![Investors Seem to Know About Activist Campaigns Before They Happen. Should They?](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e94cefaaadf6ba9dae06222646dba9dde9f1fc5e76ad47dbf17c3edf4c69871/art_activists_v4.jpg)
![GP-Led Secondaries Are Having a Moment — But Don’t Discount the Traditional Market](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39318264e616a7e23ba6abe8c702222ad611ba172cbbeb3b5bcd976db86df005/art_algo_1006.jpg)
![Only Special Investors Get to Buy These Bonds. They Make Up More Than Half of the High-Yield Bond Market.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e65cdeaf65f96ca11726757567bbd12709f493bc3b3b6136a9479a645dbef3f/art_bonds.jpg)
![The Curious Case of Dmitry Balyasny](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/177ef4bdc7b7194df034f0efd701855a68b1ef044cadb51782eb810598ed57d1/art_balyasny_v3.jpg)
![Cathie Wood Was Last Year’s Hottest Investor. But Is There a Lesson for Her Fans in a Forgotten 1990s Icon?](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f2dfd4fe99d6f100edf62aab0ad6dac2aac743a1faa01d08b801ffb40b4834d/art_hand_0309.jpg)
![The Existential Crisis Facing Long-Short Equity](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7165b945d21fb5de76f837d1323355be3f9523eb0a30f6eda5403d787af881c0/art_existential.jpg)
![The Site Visit Fetish](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9af94ae7d37f3aaf8751ef8de22e832d2a62a1f00cbb83badda2ac17f084dc4/art_sitevisit.jpg)
![Private Equity Makes ESG Promises. But Their Impact Is Often Superficial](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de4566fd2d87542f419ad70799ed0d58c0a530bb791c22358e97b48b30b06175/art_esgturbine.jpg)
![The Most Powerful Artificial Intelligence Knows Nothing About Investing. That’s Perfectly Okay.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/524eba1df1bbb99404fdfa2b4ddef13fcbb9959066d71d296304eb45b4cc045a/art_AI_0216.jpg)
![Ivy Endowments Will Reveal Pay Packages Soon. Here’s What to Look For.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09a71f6db937ced0a269bdc786c320c1724e1723677b0107c0947add632fd18e/art-ivycomp.jpg)
![‘MillionaireMike’, a SpaceX Engineer, Tried to Buy and Sell Inside Information on the Dark Web. He’s Now Facing Jail Time.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbcd452ce9c06b5ed7183aef4796bd676895f941cf7ddbd3677698f4f7dce5b9/art_insider_0319.jpg)
![Investors Are Clinging to an Outdated Strategy — At the Worst Possible Time](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d4d5cad70a89fe4454bd943c1f06ecceef826c3a4e5abd80242375b3ccbd00a4/art_lagnado.jpg)
![Bill Hwang Invested Millions in Other Tiger Cubs, Including Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global and Steve Mandel’s Lone Pine](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f65573e7396b962fd2184f4d3bfa99f33d8c9fb318116261650f8e0e767b16b/art_hwang_0413.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd378979b5cc59364536b4035d4f3b8740a062f60c94ba58fb2bdf19fe48efd0/art_outperform.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc4564836e0f2df95580caafbb14151705f4306a0472db7f8993dcd214399cdf/art_distraction.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b89363e85a46c2c913e3c9e1430235677bb7cd4b954ea03c61d194ca21c1c63/art_shrodingerscat.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f776ba1e28869e6f18435338c3e5a096f321cee6a0166160db755514c2590c01/art_tech.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/37bb997695b1c7a97cdfcae45f6954b7a73b51b1ef64ed838ce664909e73a326/Art_french.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/969fd60c8c41b547310ceea368f6b1e880b395fbf572cd8c56ca74b62fe90260/art_private-equity.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15dd6ecbf9491ac1ac2f568143582494c56a92d37b6575caeffc48dfdf55fb88/art_kane_v1.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9dd68cdf33dd2ba15344fd5269ce1f47f809872c2f1b4f30865cab6326231c1a/art_hf.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc4bb4a9ab58335751088b523f7582029f054f8b57f00108e431f9ae2d4d5f87/art_Power.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f97a5792da4823b4c0633f4a7e757f895ba05ef9ca301e6f535f8f425daf525e/art_cyber.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5f195db7432e99cc9bfcc03cd5498f96009817f21598d33fa485696fc56a1dc/art_returns.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/989d891c620d5ecf367003ce8901555769ed203ce901fb90ea4e764c10ae8f7d/Art_Strategicpartners_v1.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70e0980ef4c9a39f0f0bbb729efed175b4f3d4cf73ad37be52b5420024b692f5/art_diverse.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca5fc775b599a92eee104cf75f3f2c1b1ee5c48708ebd693447a6c001730ed19/art_confidential.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2e4e2627656c034a53051e78e2b89d2b5f9bb5ed1ee44d2f8c5a9c9d2c99c72/art_fees.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab487ba16dbddd274e0a6cd249a80dd552575efc93b8fb40b860d86926b9e997/art_RD_vertical.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3636296abc10ba82d0f08c119e216288f1440b54334cdacec554bbf027ac3f24/art_TDF_0311.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2effe1de5daf2c482db5401cf93522a1e07bb508d43b193beb7960717420467c/art_cybersecurity.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c366b662d93dac30057d99ec3da2c2b784913b0b5121a781fc08a86c3aad1058/art_confidence.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bff42f0ae472edd4829ea7656ebbe50630581e82d8bd9e1024d205204832b207/art_Diversification.jpg)