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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China's advanced infrastructure and ballooning debt are two sides of the same story, says Carnegie Endowment nonresident senior fellow Michael Pettis, who compares China's coming consumption-led rebalancing to Japan's in the 1980s. In conversation with Top1000funds.com Asia Pacific correspondent Darcy Song, Pettis unpacks what this means for institutional investors weighing China exposure over multi-decade horizons, and why he remains bearish on the country's outlook.
There’s a debate raging about whether modern economies have banished high inflation to the history books. The short answer, Mercer argues, is it’s complicated. So, investors better have a plan.
Are the two world powers on a collision course for war? Could global investors get smashed between the two? Unfortunately, the answers appear to be yes and yes.
A new strategy reigns at the U. of Texas endowment, designed to help chief executive and CIO Britt Harris build on an already stellar reputation for adding talent and helping it thrive.
Finance professor Keith Ambachtsheer has outlined a trio of possibilities for coming decades. One is a rosy outlook, two are more pessimistic. But no matter what, he sees a long-term premium.
The top-five Danish pension fund, PKA, has made a bigger push into alternatives than its peers, and a good chunk of that allocation comes from direct investment in offshore and onshore wind farms.
With its new survey of asset owners, the Principles for Responsible Investment hopes to learn ways to help an incredibly diverse range of signatories build true value for their beneficiaries.
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