I chat with Campbell, Professor of Finance at Duke University, on the future of quantitative finance, academic journals, model fitting and the intellectual fallacies within inference.
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China's advanced infrastructure and ballooning debt are two sides of the same story, says Carnegie Endowment nonresident senior fellow Michael Pettis, who compares China's coming consumption-led rebalancing to Japan's in the 1980s. In conversation with Top1000funds.com Asia Pacific correspondent Darcy Song, Pettis unpacks what this means for institutional investors weighing China exposure over multi-decade horizons, and why he remains bearish on the country's outlook.
Australia's Aware Super is calling for more women in core portfolio management and trading roles to “move the dial” on closing the gender pay gap. Head of income assets, Sonia Baillie, said Hollywood-style hedge fund manager stereotypes is making it difficult for young women to imagine themselves in investment roles.
The 2024 CIO Sentiment Survey finds asset owners increasingly willing to make significant allocation shifts after several years of reticence. They have a greater appetite for risk and are increasingly experimenting with new asset classes, but they are concerned about high public equity valuations.
The CalPERS board is likely to wrestle back control of setting the pension fund’s discount rate, a process that has been done automatically since 2015. Board member David Miller amongst others said this investment rate of return shouldn’t "just happen" as a matter of course, without them stepping in.
Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs bats away criticism that the sole fiduciary model is outdated, arguing it is possible to wear a fiduciary and political hat if your sole purpose is to serve the people of the state.
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Markus Aho, chief investment officer of the €57.4 billion Finnish pension fund, Varma, explains how the fund’s diversification with a large equity allocation balanced by hedge funds, fixed income and real assets has meant it has been resilient to the increasing investment challenges.
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