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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Senior executives from some of the world's largest private market managers gathered in Berlin this month with a collective understanding: managers who move slowly on AI face not just weaker returns but the risk of owning businesses that have been competitively displaced before they can exit.
Foundation and endowment funds are allocating the largest percentage of alternatives to their portfolios, with public funds coming second ahead corporate plans in third place.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Indexes are important for pension funds. They benchmark the fund’s performance against goals and peers. They allow the fund’s managers to be measured and often times they decide the managers’ remuneration. You would think, then, that there must be a lot of science behind their use.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
State Street has thrown its weight behind the proposal for the Asian Pacific region to collaborate on development of an ‘Asian Funds Passport’ to facilitate the growth of locally domiciled managed funds.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Is private equity an asset class? George Siguler (pictured), a doyen in the field, a former head of alternative investments for the Harvard endowment that formed his own firm, and a pioneer of unlisted investments in the BRIC countries, thinks not. He spoke with Greg Bright about the state of play in private equity. George
The largest bond manager in the world, PIMCO, is cleaning up. Figures from researcher and data provider eVestment Alliance show that institutional investors put more than twice the amount of money into US fixed-income funds in the past three months than any other asset class.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Uncertainty about whether inflation or deflation is the greater threat in the US and Europe, coupled with record prices for – and individual investor buying of – gold, have prompted an unusual level of interest in the yellow metal by pension funds.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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