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.
An Oxford fellow in economics said computers’ upgrades in areas such as judgement and empathy would soon allow them to do many tasks now thought to be for humans only – even some clergy duties.
In Western economies, the idea that if you contribute you get something back has died. Oxford’s Eric Beinhocker says the key to fixing things lies in the system’s ability to foster innovation.
Renewable energy sources are thriving as a long-term asset class, thanks to consumer demand from corporations, emerging technology and other factors. A panel of experts explained the appeal.
The CIO of the $4.3 billion fund manager argued in a panel discussion that an excess of capital in the market and lack of access to top general partners have hurt the asset class.
Fraud and falsehoods are nothing new but technology has made it much more difficult to separate fact from fiction. Professor Stephen Kotkin discussed investing in a world of deception.
Saïd Business School’s Peter Tufano says investors’ responsibility is to make decisions for the collective good; he identifies 12 future threats to the species to consider in strategy.
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