As Larry Fink Implores CEOs to Embrace Corporate Responsibility, Blackrock Quant Says ESG “Strongly Associated With Bad Outcomes”

Quantitative investing is a niche inside a larger industry, but it is rapidly changing the core nature traditional investment processes. From an artificial intelligence and machine learning to algorithmic portfolio management, what it means to build and execute an investment plan has changed as a result. At Deutsche Bank’s DBAccess Global Quant Conference 2017 Hong Kong, everyone from bottom-up stock pickers and top-down cross-asset allocators and portfolio allocators were talking about investment process refinement. It even included talk about socially responsible investing, a topic that seemingly put a Blackrock quant at odds with recent comments made by BlackRock CEO Larry Fink.

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Big data and automated portfolio construction at DBAccess Global Quant Conference

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