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John Fawcett: Disrupting the secretive world of quants
I chat with John, the founder of Quantopian, on how he got started in quantitative finance, where he sees the industry evolving and how he created a global community of intrinsically motivated coders to create unique solutions to the greatest intellectual
Holistic and lasting sustainability
What is sustainability if not the ability to exist into the future? In this context how sustainable are institutions, organisations, communities and politics and what will the future actually look like?
France urges more ESG action
“It’s time to act,” said Bruno Le Maire, France’s Minister of the Economy and Finance in the opening keynote speech at PRI in Person in Paris in a speech, which underscored with a sense of urgency that the financial world is not doing enough to meet today’s ESG challenges.
Stewardship, decarbonization and the energy transition
We explain the role stewardship plays in identifying companies positioned for success amid the energy transition.
Sunsuper shrugs off private market froth
Sunsuper investment chief, Ian Patrick, is buying unlisted assets despite record prices that are set to climb even higher as super funds scramble for yield.
Impact and measurement
This session will hear from investors on their approaches and the applicability and power of impact investing across both public and private assets.
CalPERS, NY pensions challenge SpaceX’s ‘unfireable’ CEO provision ahead of mammoth IPO
Three of the largest US pension funds, managing a combined $1 trillion in assets, have demanded a meeting with SpaceX executives ahead of its speculated blockbuster IPO warning that its proposed corporate plan could be “the most management-favourable governance structure ever brought to the US public markets”.
Size matters: diversity across factors
The size factor has recently come under attack from smart beta providers because its performance has lagged behind other factors. A common recommendation is to remove size from the factor menu, to give more weight to factors with better performance. But due to its low correlation with other factors, size offers substantial diversification benefits.
