Investors are watching conflict in the Middle East closely as inflationary pressures begin to build beneath the surface. One of the challenges for many investors is reduced exposure to the hedging benefits of fossil fuels in listed, and private markets.
The artificial intelligence revolution is taking place against a backdrop of rising fiscal deficits and a realignment of the geopolitical order. Applying cutting-edge AI technology to navigate markets is helping asset managers such as Bridgewater make sense of a shifting landscape.
The inexorable rise of AI is increasing energy demand around the globe, but the technology itself is also enabling greater efficiencies. Assessing its real impact requires an understanding of both its “footprint” and its “handprint”, and its impact may not be as dire as we’ve been led to believe.
Global investors face the difficult task of setting asset allocation in an environment where the global macro-economic backdrop suggests chaos and downside risk but markets continue to perform strongly.
Pension fund members in retirement want the sustainability of pension payments. OPTrust chief investment officer James Davis told the Top1000Funds Fiduciary Investors Symposium that a total portfolio approach is the best way to do that, and has been on a journey towards delivering it for the past 10 years.
Geneticist David Sinclair says aging is a disease and it is preventable and treatable. He told the Fiduciary Investors Symposium that research demonstrates we can slow down or even reverse the aging process. It sounds like good news, but the consequences for society and the investment community are profound.
A decision by government-backed AI Singapore to rank organisations according to their awareness of and competency in AI before working with them has helped the nation become a global AI superpower, ranked behind only the US and China. The approach is also driving healthy ROI on AI projects.
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