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.
To better manage downside risk, the second-largest UK local government pension scheme has a plan to gradually alter its equity allocation.
The mechanism for sharing risks via fees in the pension industry is weak, says Fiona Trafford-Walker. Asset-based fees don't reflect managers’ ability, and clients don't get enough of the benefit of scale.
Analysis of the Willis Towers Watson Global Pension Assets Study 2016 shows a troubled industry responding as best it can to situations it feels are out of its control.
Investors should adopt the ILPA standardised fee reporting template for private equity, say Mike Heale and Andrea Dang from CEM Benchmarking
PGGM has committed to reducing its carbon footprint by 50 per cent, but for many asset classes it doesn’t know what the current carbon footprint is.
Analysing smart beta performance and risks is not monkey business. For a better understanding of smart beta strategies it is crucial to analyse their construction.
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