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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GIC has further refined its total portfolio approach by moving to a strategic portfolio focused on underlying factors that drive returns. Split between equities, fixed income and real assets, the revision means the fund can move more easily between private and public exposures and nimbly between asset classes.
Towers Watson’s negative outlook for bonds and its advice to increase allocations to high quality credit is being reflected in portfolio shifts by institutional investors.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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This MSCI research note looks at the historical behaviour of two risk-based investment strategies and investigates their potential application in an institutional equity portfolio. Does risk-based strategy diversification work?mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
The Securities and Exchange Commission should reinstate the investor advisory committee it abandoned in 2010 as part of a wider commitment to address near-term financial market reform, a group of institutional investors from across the globe have stated. The investors, who represent combined assets of $1.6 trillion, wrote to SEC chairman Mary Schaprio calling for
A cost-risk analysis of a proposed hybrid defined contribution/defined benefit plan proposed for California shows that it would provide marginal overall cost savings to government, CalPERS analysis has revealed.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Ron Liesching, chairman of Mountain Pacific Group, an investment firm that contributed to the development of the FTSE Wealth Preservation Unit, examines a new solution to managing currency risk. Global investors struggle with one central issue, currency risk. Now there is a new solution: the FTSE Wealth Preservation Unit (WPU). The WPU is a diversified
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