Nick Wade from Northfield and the Curious Quant discuss the impact of COVID on risk modeling frameworks, assumptions, and how the recent movements in asset markets may or may not impact the short and long-term assumptions of asset owners.
COVID Popup Podcast: Curious Quant and Nick Wade discuss if risk models have something to say about pandemic risk.
Rest Super’s selective approach to PE pays off as program comes of age
A concentrated bet on fewer, better GP relationships is paying off for one of Australia's largest superannuation funds. Built on selective manager and deal selection rather than a broad roster, the A$112 billion ($78 billion) Rest Super delivered private equity returns more than double the peer average last financial year, as the fund proactively courts top-tier PE firms instead of waiting to be approached.
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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.
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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