The CIO Agenda

The new year couldn’t come quickly enough for some quant strategies. A swathe of headlines pronounced 2020 a quantus annus horribilis for a host of reasons, from swashbuckling retail day traders to outdated historical trend models. As no stranger to quantitative investing ourselves, we investigate what really happened to quant in 2020 and whether 2021 may prove a change in fortunes.Ori Ben-Akiva, Director of Portfolio Management at Man Numeric, joins Sandy Rattray and The CIO Agenda to discuss the challenges quant (equity) strategies faced in 2020 and the factors that will drive their success.

Important information

As the successful rollouts of effective Covid-19 vaccines have rekindled investor optimism, emerging markets have seen a comeback in recent months.

We believe that it is prudent to remain cautious on emerging markets for five reasons: overall debt burdens; Chinese credit impulse; deteriorating conditions across the largest developed markets; a lack of catalysts for EM currency appreciation versus the US dollar; and positioning.

Lisa Chua, Portfolio Manager, join Sandy Rattray and The CIO Agenda to discuss what lies ahead for emerging-market debt.

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Launching April 2021, The CIO Agenda is about the challenges professional investors face.

Hosted by Sandy Rattray, Chief Investment Officer at Man Group and co-inventor of the VIX Index, he'll be interviewing guests on how they'd approach a particular investment problem and where professional investors might find opportunities for alpha.