Become a member and subscribe Login

Jim Creighton: Quant in the 90s and the AI reinvention

Khanh Vo

September 27, 2019

I chat with Jim, the former CIO of Barclays Global Investors on the history of quantitative investment, the myths of factor investing, and how machine learning can help solve difficult problems in financial markets. We touch on the future of AI and its use in the broader society – where are the opportunities and where are the potential threats?

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

Sponsored Content

Leave a Comment

More from this fund

New Jersey’s $85 billion fund stockpiles cash, eyes PE secondaries

Darcy Song

July 30, 2026

ART homes in on balance sheet management as Australian system enters new liquidity era

Darcy Song

July 30, 2026

GIC evolves TPA in investment framework overhaul centred on economic drivers and flexibility

Darcy Song

July 28, 2026

COAERS finds rich pickings in PE secondaries; warns of retail risk

Sarah Rundell

July 27, 2026

New Jersey’s $85 billion fund stockpiles cash, eyes PE secondaries

New Jersey’s $85 billion fund stockpiles cash, eyes PE secondaries

An underweight position across private markets, predicated on a view that geopolitics and inflation mean interest rates are not coming down any time soon, has positioned the New Jersey Division of Investment with plenty of dry powder and a cash position four times the policy allocation. It is now readying for opportunities in private equity secondaries and with emerging managers. Chief investment officer Shoaib Khan spoke to Top1000funds.com.

Darcy Song

July 30, 2026

ART homes in on balance sheet management as Australian system enters new liquidity era

Darcy Song

July 30, 2026

GIC evolves TPA in investment framework overhaul centred on economic drivers and flexibility

Darcy Song

July 28, 2026

COAERS finds rich pickings in PE secondaries; warns of retail risk

Sarah Rundell

July 27, 2026

Beyond asset classes: Active credit becomes the test case for Florida’s portfolio evolution

Sarah Rundell

July 23, 2026

Sort content by

Sustainable investment goes to school

The Robert F Kennedy Centre for Justice and Human Rights and Columbia University’s Earth Institute will run a series of high-level courses on sustainable investment focused on environmental, social and governance approaches as well as human and labour rights this autumn. The Compass Sustainable Investing Certificate program, designed for long-term investors, will have a solutions-driven

Sarah Rundell

September 27, 2013

End of the beginning for responsible investment

Recent reflections on this month’s five-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse have focused on a variety of developments since the crisis: from reform to remuneration, sovereign debt to shadow banking, and from offshore tax to the Occupy movement. However, one significant area that has been largely overlooked has been the rise of sustainable and

Peter Webster

September 25, 2013

Europe, alternatives pay for Danish Sampension

The herd mentality of investors has been agonised over for as long as markets have been around. The dilemma is often raised of whether to participate in or shun market trends, but the DKK150-billion ($27-billion) Sampension has succeeded recently with a selective approach. It has fully embraced the institutional diversification movement by building a significant

Dan Billingham

September 25, 2013

Giving time to investment governance

Roger Urwin, global head of content at Towers Watson and governance specialist, says most organisations don’t spend enough time on it, but transformational change is all about giving time to investment governance. Culture and leadership, for example is so self-evidently important in people organisations and yet it is understated in asset owners, he says. “The soft

Amanda White

September 20, 2013

NEST into infrastructure and property

The National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, the UK government-backed pension scheme set up a year ago with the introduction of auto-enrolment, developed a new allocation to real estate this summer. Now it is planning to add infrastructure to its illiquid allocations in a move reflective of a change of thinking to embrace more risk. NEST’s

Sarah Rundell

September 20, 2013

Towers Watson: complexity coming straight at you

To be a long-term investor requires thematic investing because markets and economies are complex adaptive systems, according to Tim Hodgson, global head of the thinking-ahead group at Towers Watson. Hodgson told delegates at the Towers Watson Ideas Exchange in Sydney that economies and markets are complex and adaptive, their path is not random and the

Amanda White

September 18, 2013

Previous
Load more

Fiduciary Investors Podcast Series

Listen to Podcast

Subscribe now to

Become a member and subscribe

Join Now
Our partners

Top1000funds.com is the market leading news and analysis site for the world’s largest institutional investors. It focuses on leading the global investment industry to continuous improvement through case studies of best practice in governance and decision making, portfolio construction and efficient portfolio management, fees and costs, and sustainable investing.

The publication pushes the industry to question whether status quo processes and behaviours to tackle risks and opportunities will be sufficient in the future, and actively campaigns for diversity, sustainability, transparency, innovation and better alignment of fees in the investment industry.

Top1000funds.com is read by investment professionals in more than 40 countries.

Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Cookie Policy | AI Editorial Policy