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 ($53 billion) in private markets.
AI and other advances are making assets like toll bridges more challenging. Opportunities are emerging from privatisation but the days of 'set-and-forget' may be coming to an end.
Asset owners are diversifying, cutting costs and allocating assets to low-volatility strategies to put their portfolios in position for difficult times, a high-level panel discussion found.
Investors need to face the reality of lower returns and adjust their portfolios accordingly, the co-CIO of hedge-fund giant Bridgewater said.
Merely capturing carbon data doesn't do enough to inform asset owners about environmental risk but models and technology are emerging to do the job, the Smith School's Ben Caldecott explains.
Australia’s $34 billion pension fund for the construction industry is moving nearly half of its asset management in-house, starting with active equity and infrastructure.
UNI Global Union general secretary Philip Jennings implored asset owners to use their influence to help the global workforce, for the sake of the economy, society and their supply chains.
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