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.
‘Selective optimism’ in UK real estate, infrastructure and other assets characterises investors across Europe as they scramble to tell the genuine opportunities from fool’s gold following Brexit.
Calls for a long-term investment focus have lacked a sophisticated metric to back them up – until now. The McKinsey Global Institute has found tangible benefits from shunning short-termism.
Coal Pension Trustees Services includes a sizeable allocation to equities and is making a move into illiquid sectors such as shipping assets – ‘floating property’ – to generate cash flow.
Steve Ross was a pioneer of fields such as asset pricing, investment management and corporate finance. His colleagues at MIT and Caltech regarded him as generous and kind.
MSCI ESG Research has seen growing demand from institutional investors for data on tax-related risk. In response, it has added data such as geographic revenue transparency to its ratings.
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