Linda Gruendken: Cycling in Cambridge and the randomness of markets

I chat with Linda, the lead scientist from GAM Systematic CANTAB, and recently named as one of the top 50 women in the hedge fund industry. We have a fascinating conversation about the difference between quant and systematic approaches, and the vast uncertainty of financial markets. We talk about the usefulness of machine learning models and the critical role that investment horizon plays.

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Finland’s Elo: Larger equity allocations promise new media scrutiny

Finland’s Elo: Larger equity allocations promise new media scrutiny

As Finland's pension funds prepare to increase their equity allocations to unprecedented levels compared to global peers, they must also navigate a new and unfamiliar risk. Elo's chief investment officer Jonna Ryhänen explains the fund's investment approach going forward and how it will manage stakeholder and media scrutiny as they react to swinging volatility and returns.

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Looking backwards is a poor way to assess Asia’s future

The specific drivers of growth of Asian economies means a traditional view of asset allocation is not necessarily the best way to approach investing in the region, the 2024 Top100funds.com Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Singapore has heard.

Success in Asia will be by choice, not by chance

Asia is an attractive region for investment by institutional asset owners, but economic prosperity and wealth won't be created by chance. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard that it will be the result of a series of careful, deliberate policy choices.

Recasting emissions abatement as expensive rather than hard 

When it comes to figuring out how a company will get to net zero and how their transition will be financed, more investors are making a distinction between emissions that are hard to abate, and emissions that are expensive to abate.

Looking backwards a poor way to assess Asia’s future

The specific drivers of growth of Asian economies means a traditional view of asset allocation is not necessarily the best way to approach investing in the region, the 2024 Top100funds.com Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Singapore has heard.

Investors warm towards India despite ‘nosebleed valuations’

Investors have been warned not to compare apples to apples between China and India just because the two have similar market sizes and populations. And despite India’s sky-high valuations, Top1000funds.com Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard that the country’s solid market structure and culture will make it worth investors’ while.

Further Chinese equity market declines ‘unlikely’: Pictet chief economist

Despite China’s recent equity woes, Pictet’s Geneva-based chief economist Patrick Zweifel remains bullish on the outlook for the country, telling the Top1000funds.com Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Singapore that stabilization of macro factors and “promising cyclical developments” will breathe life into the market of world’s second-largest economy.

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