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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Border to Coast hunts strategic partners as private markets set to surge

Border to Coast hunts strategic partners as private markets set to surge

The UK’s LGPS pool, £120 billion ($161 billion) Border to Coast, is hunting for strategic relationships with asset managers and global asset owners as it prepares to invest £40 billion in private markets. Chief executive Rachel Elwell speaks to Top1000funds.com about the fund's approach to finding long-term partnerships in the market.

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First State: superannuation’s evolution

Most of Australia’s retirement system is still just heading towards investing with scale for both accumulation and pension phase. The A$70 billion First State Super and CIO Damian Graham are already there. So what do its investments look like?

FRR won’t add risk, ending trend

The $41 billion French pension reserve fund had upped the return-seeking proportion of its portfolio every year since 2010 but inflation fears and expensive equities have halted the streak.

OPTrust’s safe space for innovation

OPTrust Labs will allow the Canadian pension fund’s research and development unit to take risks and fail so it can nurture new ideas and technology. It’s about “unleashing human activity”.

Dutch end Denmark’s reign in retirement

The Netherlands ended a six-year run for the Danish atop Mercer’s Global Pension Index. Europe dominated the rankings as all countries struggled to balance adequacy and sustainability.

FIS Stanford Photo Gallery

View photos from the 2018 Fiduciary Investors Symposium, held at Stanford University, United States.

South Dakota takes risk to bottom rung

The $14.2 billion South Dakota retirement system is sitting on cash and T-bills to hedge against equity-type risk seeping into its portfolio. The fund remains opportunistic and won’t rule out fossil fuels.

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