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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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.
An expert panel argues that the objectives of the Paris Agreement can’t be achieved without stopping deforestation and looks to technology for some ways to make it happen.
Trying to find ways to get colleagues to embrace responsible investment strategies can be frustrating but it becomes easier when the business case includes the bottom line.
A social impact fund and innovative engagement with investee companies make ESG an integrated part of the culture at private equity firm TPG, co-chief executive Jon Winkelried said in an interview.
Integration of ESG strategies into passive investment is becoming easier with greater sophistication and is set to grow, a panel of experts said.
The seven-year drought plaguing the state with the world’s fifth-largest economy highlights supply-chain issues and other concerns that investors need to take seriously.
Investors said the move away from the carbon economy in response to climate change was definitely coming and would be difficult. They shared some of the ways they’re getting ready.
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