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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An underweight position across private markets, predicated on a view that geopolitics and inflation mean interest rates are not coming down any time soon, has positioned the New Jersey Division of Investment with plenty of dry powder and a cash position four times the policy allocation. It is now readying for opportunities in private equity secondaries and with emerging managers. Chief investment officer Shoaib Khan spoke to Top1000funds.com.
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board is incorporating top-down macro analysis of the drivers of stock-bond correlations into its risk management, including to assess the potential of a secular shift in the stock-bond correlation.
Pensioenfonds PGB (PGB), the Netherlands €32 billion industry-wide pension fund, has rewritten its sustainable investment strategy with far reaching ESG commitments.
An increased focus on liquidity management through factors, a leaning towards public markets and robust risk management are all key to implementing HOOPP’s “maniacal focus on liquidity” that helps CIO Michael Wissell sleep at night. Amanda White spoke to the Toronto-based investment chief ahead of the Fiduciary Investors Symposium.
University Pension Plan Ontario is aggressively building out its 20 per cent allocation to private assets, taking advantage of many LPs finding themselves overweight illiquid investments to build new GP relationships.
The prospect of consolidation in the mining industry is a source of concern for Church of England Pensions Board's chief responsible investment officer. He explains why.
The UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) is in the process of an organisational pivot as it looks to shift its primary function away from driving ESG accountability among investors (which it has been doing for the past two decades) to facilitating collaboration.
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