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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A geostrategic standoff between the US and China over AI would be “extremely damaging for capital owners” according to the Future Fund, Australia’s A$337 billion ($237 billion) sovereign wealth fund, which outlined four “secular scenarios” around AI and its investment implications.
APG recently hired its first digital portfolio manager. “Samuel” comes complete with an employee identity number and underlines the firm's ambitions around data-driven money management. Amanda White spoke with APG's CIO Peter Branner about the road ahead.
Singapore’s GIC invested more than any other SWF last year and fuelled by buoyant oil revenues, Gulf SWFs have had and are expected to continue their investment rampage. Elsewhere, hedge funds have proved one of the most successful allocations, particularly for ADIA, says Global SWF in its annual report.
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.
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