I chat with Alex on his experiences across a range of environments, the role of machine learning in Australia’s future and how to best deploy data science in academia and industry.
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Senior executives from some of the world's largest private market managers gathered in Berlin this month with a collective understanding: managers who move slowly on AI face not just weaker returns but the risk of owning businesses that have been competitively displaced before they can exit.
A recent board meeting at TRS discussed challenges in the $11 billion risk parity allocation. However, predicting stymied economic growth and continued inflation ahead, the asset class is likely to do better going forward
In 2022 we introduced some new projects aimed at providing a deeper understanding of best practice and driving the industry to produce better outcomes for stakeholders.
Speaking at USS’s 2022 Institutions’ Meeting, Simon Pilcher told stakeholders that the asset manager had navigated market turmoil in the UK bond market by having less leverage than peer funds and diversification, explaining USS also hedges inflation and interest rate risk with US bonds.
Denmark's Lægernes Pension has just completed a series of tech investments to further sharpen its investment processes. Michael Daniel Andersen, head of portfolio construction, believes natural language processing revealing what people are reading and researching will offer some of the most valuable new investment signals ahead.
Today's positive stock-bond correlation means balanced portfolios will be more volatile without the natural hedge that bonds have long provided to stocks.
Belgium’s KBC Pensioenfonds, the pension fund for the banking and insurance group, runs a large LDI programme. But unlike UK pension funds who had to fire sell assets to post margin during the recent gilt crisis, KBC can post bonds, not cash, as collateral.
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