“A combination of humans imagining how the future might be different from the past with the actual modeling is quite powerful, as long as you know how to bring it together,” says Newton’s CEO Euan Munro.
Rival U.K. firms Aspect Capital, Man AHL and Winton are doubling down on machine learning and other quantitative investing efforts, but don’t expect them to short human ingenuity.
Machine learning, artificial intelligence and other technological advances are transforming how pensions, endowments, sovereign funds and other institutions manage their assets.
