Fantastic conversation with Igor Halperin around the application of reinforcement learning into forecasting problem, and the limits to data and understanding the world.
Impact investing’s case for scale
Impact investing has come a long way in the past two decades, going from a niche strategy to a $1.5 trillion industry, but there are still challenges for it to reach institutional scale due to the lack of products and insufficient evidence of outperformance in some parts of the market.
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CalPERS reduces total tracking error
CalPERS has reduced its total fund tracking error from 2.17 per cent to 1.94 per cent in the quarter to June 30, but it still sits above the budgeted 1.5 per cent.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Slow and steady not necessarily the best way to go
‘The Hare and the Tortoise’, a well-known Aesop’s fable, does not have much in common with ‘An Imperial Message’, a less-well-known story from Franz Kafka, but combined they may tell us something about current reactions to the unsettling world which the global financial crisis has thrown investors into.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Sovereign funds favouring Asian IPOs for next 3 months
Asian IPOs, core retail real estate and natural resource investments are the most favoured by the world’s sovereign wealth funds for the next three months, according to a ‘consensus demand meter’ produced by the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute in the US.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Inside the pension crisis
Managing director for Rogerscasey and former CIO of the Kentucky Retirement Systems, Adam Tosh, looks at the pension challenges facing state and local governments.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
CIC gets its money back from collapsed US cash trust
The China Investment Corporation has recovered all of its $5.3 billion invested in a US money market fund, the Primary Fund, which collapsed and suspended redemptions in 2008.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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