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.
While factor strategies have been running for decades in equity markets, their application to corporate bonds has been pioneered in Robeco. There are many similarities between equities and credits and also important differences: in particular the liquidity of corporate bonds. Read more about this new white paper »
The total investment costs of AP2 are only 17 basis points, yet the portfolio is described by chief executive, Eva Halvarsson as complex and advanced. So how do they do it?
HOOPP is in an extraordinary position of being 122 per cent funded. It continues to focus on innovative investments - such as credit derivatives - as a way to achieve its pension promise.
Investors should not rely on investment theory because the complex and connected risks in the real world cannot fully be accounted for, says Tim Unger, of Willis Towers Watson.
The $33 billion PPF has an investment plan that sees it reducing the reliance on inflation and interest rate swaps, and better proof the portfolio from the looming cost of derivative strategies.
Asset owners are winning the argument to lower private equity manager fees; their next battle will be about the valuation of private assets.
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