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.
With a unique long-term horizon – 100 years – Japan’s GPIF takes a different view of investing but is pragmatic enough to see that not all investors need to behave the same way.
CalSTRS focuses on fee reduction, using hedge funds for risk mitigation and ponders divestment from coal in emerging markets. Sarah Rundell interviews chief investment officer, Chris Ailman.
France’s €36.3 billion Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites has a positive outlook for Europe and is prioritising “de-carbonisation” and active strategies to position the portfolio for new trends.
The combination of 89 local government pension schemes, (LGPS), into a pool of funds means significant and large direct investment in the UK is possible when pension funds work collectively.
Diversification can be a powerful tool in managing downside risk, but it has been argued that “too much” diversification can destroy a business if it diverts too widely from its original purpose.
The US$60 billion Mass PRIM has recalibrated its hedge fund portfolio moving from fund of funds to direct relationships, reducing fees, and using managed accounts. So what’s next?
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