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Mario Batali Is Sorry bit.ly/tNYG1k

Yahoo is searching for a future. It offers a spectacle that involves huge war chests and equally inflated egos econ.st/v49Op6

Speech by Philip Lowe, Assistant Governor, to Australian Farm Institute Agriculture Roundtable Conference, Melbourne –goo.gl/Rjs1U

An unemployment cartoon of the day (with giraffes): nyr.kr/sdG2MV

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How the Future Fund built a TPA culture that scales

How the Future Fund built a TPA culture that scales

The total portfolio approach has allowed Australia’s sovereign wealth fund to capture the themes that will power markets and economies for decades to come, said director of thought leadership Craig Thorburn – but that doesn’t mean it’s not hard to scale.

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Investors brace for life after the US dollar 

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. 

Future of Asia now ‘a more difficult story’ as multilateralism crumbles

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.

Geopolitical uncertainty forces investors to adopt more granular approach

The radical shift in world geopolitics has prompted investors like the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Khazanah Nasional Berhad and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority to rethink their strategic asset allocations in favour of a more granular approach.

How AI will propel quant 2.0

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”. 

Asset owners prepare portfolios for a brave new world

As waves of geopolitical risk and economic protectionism roil global markets, asset owners are beginning to realise that tomorrow will look very different from today. But the big question is what they can do about it.

GIC: ‘Profound uncertainties’ challenge investor assumptions

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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