Meditations on Investing: Recent Episodes
Angelo Calvello
In this time of the coronavirus, beware of the parallels between smaller managers and independently owned asset managers.
Bruce Shi of Thrones Capital claims in Forbes to be one of the most successful managers in the w. An investigation by Angelo Calvello suggests he’s something else.
Every manager claims they’re “doing” AI, but here’s what investors can ask to find the truth.
In late May 2019, my fellow columnist and friend, Christopher Schelling, penned an essay on free-market failures — namely, that America has too little capitalism. This is my response.
Intentional HIV infection. Acid attacks. Attempted murder. Nothing was apparently beyond the pale for one of the fathers of computer-based investing.
It’s a universal truth that investment processes should be understandable. However, artificial intelligence managers can provide no authentic explanation of their investment process. How can an investor pick an asset manager when no one knows what it does?
It’s not Charlottesville, but the hypocrisy of TPG’s William McGlashan — the prominent impact investor caught up in the college acceptance cheating scheme — is as awful as I’ve ever seen.
A crypto currency exchange founder dies, leaving 115,000 customers without access to their digital coins. But is their bad luck someone else’s fortune?
The first hedge fund was created by a socialist. So why can’t modern-day socialism help modern-day institutional investors and asset managers?
A modest remedy to fix the perennial and persistent problem of the lack of demographic diversity in the investment industry.
Workplace, board, and manager diversity has proven to be an enduring industry chimera. What is to blame?