I chat with John, the founder of Quantopian, on how he got started in quantitative finance, where he sees the industry evolving and how he created a global community of intrinsically motivated coders to create unique solutions to the greatest intellectual game on earth.
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Florida State Board of Administration has built an active credit portfolio spanning public and private markets, CIO Lamar Taylor says the initiative could be the first step in a broader shift away from traditional asset-class investing towards a framework centred on return drivers and risk exposures.
Long-time practitioners of the total portfolio approach said one of its greatest advantages is that the investment team can make significant asset allocation at its discretion, as interest towards adopting the framework picks up among asset owners to handle more complex decision-making. At FIS Singapore, GIC and OPTrust unpack the governance and risk culture to enable it.
The rise of artificial intelligence-driven trading has raised questions about the possibility of algorithmic investors crowding into many of the same ideas and amplifying stress during times of volatility. Nanyang Technological University computer science professor Bo An explores the question at FIS Singapore.
The emerging markets are a great way to access the AI thematic without buying into expensive US large caps, but their nuances demand local active management if investors want to unlock their rewards.
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As covenants in US and European private credit become weakened from an increasing flow of lending capital, asset allocators and managers are eyeing Asia as the next frontier due to its relatively untapped yet sizable market. At FIS Singapore, investors unpacked the region's complexity premium and why a local approach is essential.
While China was mainly a beneficiary rather than a participant of previous industrial revolutions, it now believes it can lead the next one, and the US will have to work hard to catch up to its extraordinary capacity and speed for development.
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