The majority (71 per cent) of institutional investors expect to add digital assets to their investment portfolios within the next five years, according to a new survey by Fidelity Digital Assets. The survey, which polled 1,100 investors, asset managers and financial advisors in Asia, Europe and the U.S., found 52 per cent of respondents said […]
Two big players in the investment research space are joining forces. Morningstar Inc., a U.S.-based independent research firm is fully acquiring Sustainalytics, a Dutch-domiciled firm specializing in environmental, social, and governance ratings and research. Morningstar already took on a 40 per cent ownership stake in Sustainalytics in 2017 and will be buying the remaining 60 […]
There’s a crisis in financial research because of statistical shortfalls, says Marcos López de Prado, a professor of practice at Cornell University’s school of engineering and chief investment officer of True Positive Technologies. “When a journal receives a paper, they don’t know how many experiments the researcher has conducted and, as a result, they cannot […]