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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Florida State Board of Administration has built an active credit portfolio spanning public and private markets, CIO Lamar Taylor says the initiative could be the first step in a broader shift away from traditional asset-class investing towards a framework centred on return drivers and risk exposures.
This report looks at official, and non-official data, to assess the post-lockdown economic recovery in China.
Financial markets played a central role in creating the problems that ultimately inflicted significant damage on the wider economy - in the dot.com bubble, sub-prime mortgage crisis and the eurozone debt crisis. But what about the unhelpful role that the finance sector can play in amplifying crises that emerge from entirely non-financial origins?
This report looks at official, and non-official data, to assess the post-lockdown economic recovery in China.
This research studies the interaction between economic decisions and epidemics. The model implies that people’s decision to cut back on consumption and work reduces the severity of the epidemic, as measured by total deaths. These decisions exacerbate the size of the recession caused by the epidemic.
The global economic shutdown triggered by COVID-19 has put the North American private debt industry to its first major test. What lessons can be learned from the global financial crisis that are relevant today? What lessons are emerging as a result of COVID-19? And how might the industry evolve?
The global economy is projected to contract sharply by –3 per cent in 2020, much worse than during the 2008–09 financial crisis. In a baseline scenario--which assumes that the pandemic fades in the second half of 2020 and containment efforts can be gradually unwound—the global economy is projected to grow by 5.8 percent in 2021 as economic activity normalises, helped by policy support. The risks for even more severe outcomes, however, are substantial.
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