John Fawcett: Disrupting the secretive world of quants

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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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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Investing in a changing climate

Our climate is changing. In recent years, we have seen an increase in costly extreme weather events such as storms, wildfires and floods. At the same time, we are living through the hottest years on record. Read Aberdeen Standard Investments paper below. 

Sustainability articles from Schroders

Latest sustainability articles from Schroders.

Working flexibly give investors an edge

Schroders’ new flexible working policy has been making the headlines. Their CIO explains why it is integral to providing superior investment performance.

Sustainability and the corporate world

In this article, Schroders focus on six key areas that point to a changing role of the corporate sector in society in the face of “inescapable truths”

Sizing the impact investing market

It is essential that the growth in impact investing is scale with integrity. The first step in that is to determine the current scale of the impact investing market and examine what that may mean for future growth and development.

Covid-19 and relationship with nature

In this series of articles, Federated Hermes will explore the links between infectious diseases, environmental issues and social sustainability, alongside the role of investors and companies. In part one, Sonya Likhtman looks at how the destruction of ecosystems can increase the risk of pandemics.

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