With the ability to uncover hard-to-find information and enable more frequent trading in traditionally illiquid asset classes, new technologies like artificial intelligence and tokenisation could be the biggest disruption most private markets investors will see in their lifetime.
Capital markets continue to be a key battlefield of power between Beijing and Washington, and whether the yuan has a serious chance of taking over the dollar as the international currency is the next big question for the world economic order.
A world where the US dollar is no longer the reserve currency seems increasingly likely by the day, and institutional investors are wary that it could fundamentally change the way they construct portfolios.
The global environment in which small Asian economies have thrived over the past seven decades is being dismantled as the US retreats as an advocate of multilateralism, globalisation and internationalism, warned leading geopolitics academic and economist Danny Quah.
Pictet Asset Management head of quantitative investment David Wright said at FIS Singapore that AI will not only provide drastic efficiency gain for traditional stock pickers but also will be a defining part of “quant 2.0”.
Investors are operating in a period of “profound uncertainty” intrinsically different from anything they have lived through in the past few decades and for some, their entire investing lifetimes, according to GIC's top economist and investment strategist Prakash Kannan.
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