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 over-reliance on mean-variance optimisation has led to portfolios that fail to take into account the radical complexity of the real world and embrace ‘pretentious and unhelpful symbols’.
Ilmarinen CIO Mikko Mursula looks to shrink its holdings in bonds while adding real estate and equity away from Europe, as the fund seeks protection from potential interest rate moves.
Gianpiero Petriglieri’s masterclass in modern leadership is just one of many sessions INSEAD’S world-leading faculty will direct at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium in France this April.
A new set of US stewardship responsibilities for investors and a governance framework for listed companies, backed by some of the largest US-based asset owners and managers, is long overdue.
In 2017, Denmark LD chief financial officer Lars Wallberg plots a push into unlisted credit, complementing a key exposure to environmental services, to manage his fund’s maturing profile.
Funds will look to pressure fund managers to put more skin in the game with fee structures as they try to control costs and expectations in a low-return world, our third annual CIO survey finds.
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