Fantastic conversation with Igor Halperin around the application of reinforcement learning into forecasting problem, and the limits to data and understanding the world.
Sampension: Why there are many reasons to be optimistic
Now is not the time to reduce risk, argues Henrik Olejasz Larsen, chief investment officer of Sampension, Denmark’s $50 billion pension fund for public and private sector employees. In an interview with Top1000funds.com, he says corporate profits have not deteriorated, and although the market has been tested from multiple directions, the underlying optimism driving equities is strong enough to overrule the negative impact of geopolitical risk.
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Top 20 managers lift share of global market
The largest 20 funds managers in the world lifted their combined market share last year as the industry recovered from two years of funds under management outflows.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Risk parity guru warns on misuse
Edward Qian, CIO of PanAgora Asset Management, coined the term “risk parity”, but he says there are misconceptions about how the approach uses leverage which, if used incorrectly, undermines its essence – risk diversification.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
New endowment model: follow the SWFs
Some sort of shape is starting to take place, post-global crisis, as to how the biggest, longest-term investors are spending their money. If the endowment model was the one to follow for the past 20 years, the sovereign wealth fund model may be the one to follow for the next.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Northern Europe scoops the pool for pension systems
The Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden were ranked the top three countries for their pension systems in the second annual study which rated adequacy, sustainability and integrity of both public and private pensions around the world.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Broeders develops risk-sharing formula
Senior economist, supervisory strategy at De Nederlandsche Bank, Dirk Broeders, has completed research which calculates an explicit formula for risk sharing by pension funds.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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