Christina Qi: High Frequency Trading – Then and Now

I chat with Christina about her experiences starting her own firm dealing with high frequency trading strategies, and her observations about how high frequency strategies have evolved, where they are now, and where they may be going in the future.

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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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How new technologies are changing the game in private markets

With the ability to uncover hard-to-find information and enable more frequent trading in traditionally illiquid asset classes, new technologies like artificial intelligence and tokenisation could be the biggest disruption most private markets investors will see in their lifetime. 

How capital markets became a weapon of choice in great power conflict

Capital markets continue to be a key battlefield of power between Beijing and Washington, and whether the yuan has a serious chance of taking over the dollar as the international currency is the next big question for the world economic order. 

Investors brace for life after the US dollar 

A world where the US dollar is no longer the reserve currency seems increasingly likely by the day, and institutional investors are wary that it could fundamentally change the way they construct portfolios. 

Future of Asia now ‘a more difficult story’ as multilateralism crumbles

The global environment in which small Asian economies have thrived over the past seven decades is being dismantled as the US retreats as an advocate of multilateralism, globalisation and internationalism, warned leading geopolitics academic and economist Danny Quah.

Geopolitical uncertainty forces investors to adopt more granular approach

The radical shift in world geopolitics has prompted investors like the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Khazanah Nasional Berhad and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority to rethink their strategic asset allocations in favour of a more granular approach.

How AI will propel quant 2.0

Pictet Asset Management head of quantitative investment David Wright said at FIS Singapore that AI will not only provide drastic efficiency gain for traditional stock pickers but also will be a defining part of “quant 2.0”. 

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