Gideon Smith: Fundamentals and the golden age for quants

I chat with Gideon, CIO & global head of portfolio management at Rosenberg Equities, on data playgrounds, hubris and the exciting future for quantitative investing.

Nothing on this podcast is to be considered investment advice or a recommendation. No investment decision or activity should be undertaken without first seeking qualified and professional advice.

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Future Fund: AI world order defined by US-China split will hurt capital owners

Future Fund: AI world order defined by US-China split will hurt capital owners

A geostrategic standoff between the US and China over AI would be “extremely damaging for capital owners” according to the Future Fund, Australia’s A$337 billion ($237 billion) sovereign wealth fund, which outlined four “secular scenarios” around AI and its investment implications.

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The future of globalisation: Friend shoring and telemigration

FIS delegates heard how globalisation will give way to new trends in nearshoring or friend shoring, telemigration, and cause companies to diversify their supply chain.

Culture, purpose and empowerment pay in the battle for talent

As the battle for talent intensifies, one CIO reflects on the best way to recruit and retain staff; elsewhere investments in dollars and real assets provide ballast in a challenging investment environment.

New asset owner template set to strengthen ESG integration by managers

Two veterans of the asset owner community, Theresa Whitmarsh, former executive director of the Washington State Investment Board and Hiro Mizuno, former CIO of the Japan Government Pension Investment Fund, are behind a new template that applies legal language to how asset managers integrate ESG

Scenario planning and net-zero

“A forecast is a prediction; we’re saying what we think will happen. A scenario is different . . . it generally looks much further out and is trying to build a picture of the future in extreme uncertainty.” — Seb Henbest mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3

Canada’s BCI plans to double allocation to private debt

British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, BCI, the $200 billion asset manager for around 30 Canadian pension funds and insurers, is planning to double its private debt allocation. Sarah Rundell spoke to Daniel Garant about the shifts in the portfolio and the focus on active management.

Energy crisis turns investors off prescriptive shareholder resolutions

In a recent stewardship update, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, warned that it will support fewer shareholder resolutions on climate change this year because they have become too extreme and prescriptive.

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