Campbell Harvey: Factor investing beyond the snake oil

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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Michael Pettis on China’s overinvestment paradox, and the Japan-style reckoning still to come

Michael Pettis on China’s overinvestment paradox, and the Japan-style reckoning still to come

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.

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Navigating 2024: Expect the unexpected, and shape it

Through 2024 the power of inter-connection will increasingly shape our investment world. To thrive in this intricate web, embracing systems thinking, recognizing tipping points, and confronting post-truth realities are essential says Roger Urwin.

Iceland’s LV battens down for AI and ESG-linked volatility ahead

The CIO of Iceland's second-largest pension fund outlines the importance of diversification overseas, and the challenge of not being able to hedge inflation in the fund's liabilities because of limitations in the banking sector.

APG hunts impact and returns in gender equity and climate action SDGs

Dutch asset manager APG's latest impact investment offers a compelling alternative to emerging market corporate and sovereign debt or DFI issuance. The strategy also offers a window into how APG’s responsible investment strategy has evolved.

AI is the challenge (and opportunity) of a lifetime for asset owners

AI may be the greatest challenge and opportunity facing the current generation of institutional asset owners. Top1000funds.com takes a deep dive into the world of machine learning and how and why the world’s leading asset owners are embracing AI in their assessment of investments and their own internal efficiencies.

How Denmark’s Industriens is exploring AI to overhaul risk analysis

Industriens, the DKK 217 billion ($30.6 billion) Danish pension fund, is using advanced technology and exploring AI models to bring sweeping advantages to its risk management processes. Julia Sommer Legaard, investment risk and data manager at the fund for the last year, explains the process behind the innovation.

CIOs’ predictions for 2024

In a year forecast to be volatile, and with the spectre of recession still very much on the cards, Top1000funds.com finds CIOs exploring new strategies, paring back on active equity, investing in technology and wrestling with the many disparate approaches to sustainability.

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