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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The twin forces rewriting the rules of investing

The twin forces rewriting the rules of investing

Portfolios built for the old world will be severely tested as emerging forces rewrite the rules of investing. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard that geopolitical and macroeconomic upheaval, together with the disruption wrought by AI, should force asset owners to rethink the structure and composition of portfolios.

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Investors ponder secondaries’ role in portfolios amid PE stress

The past two years have been a challenging time for private equity investors thanks to low deal activities, falling distributions and tough exit environment. At FIS Singapore, a panel of investors examine how secondaries can help alleviate the asset class stress in portfolios.

Investors overlook APAC private credit despite attractive returns

Institutional investment in private credit across the Asia-Pacific is failing to keep pace with the region's strong economic growth and more attractive interest rate environment, according to a panel of investors at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium.

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Delegates and speakers at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium, Singapore 2025.

How a 15-minute survey helped Singapore become an AI superpower

A decision by government-backed AI Singapore to rank organisations according to their awareness of and competency in AI before working with them has helped the nation become a global AI superpower, ranked behind only the US and China. The approach is also driving healthy ROI on AI projects. 

The five factors aligning to support EM debt outperformance

Pictet Asset Management believes that declining emerging market policy rates and rising global trade will drive the performance of EM debt – and if the US dollar declines and local manufacturing rebounds, we could see a “super boom”.

Beyond the chaos, Trump’s unwitting role in a new equilibrium

Despite the apparent chaos and US President Donald Trump’s many idiosyncrasies – and those of the people he’s surrounded by – it does not signal that the US is declining in either power or influence, and a ‘new equilibrium’ will emerge, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Singapore heard.

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