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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New Jersey’s $85 billion fund stockpiles cash, eyes PE secondaries

New Jersey’s $85 billion fund stockpiles cash, eyes PE secondaries

An underweight position across private markets, predicated on a view that geopolitics and inflation mean interest rates are not coming down any time soon, has positioned the New Jersey Division of Investment with plenty of dry powder and a cash position four times the policy allocation. It is now readying for opportunities in private equity secondaries and with emerging managers. Chief investment officer Shoaib Khan spoke to Top1000funds.com.

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GIC: ‘Profound uncertainties’ challenge investor assumptions

Investors are operating in a period of “profound uncertainty” intrinsically different from anything they have lived through in the past few decades and for some, their entire investing lifetimes, according to GIC's top economist and investment strategist Prakash Kannan.

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”.

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