Alexander Fleiss: Humility and the mean reversion

In this episode of the Curious Quant podcast series, I sit down with Alexander Fleiss from Rebellion Research to discuss stock selection, reinforcement learning and the growth of passive investing.

“Man has always been afraid of the machine. Progress has always allowed man to work for shorter periods, in greater comfort, for higher profits.”

On certainties:

“Performance we can always be sure of, good companies will always outperform bad companies.”

On hubris:

“The house always wins. We know we are going to lose, at least 30% to 40% of the time, so we need to disperse those bets.”

On patterns:

“History always repeats itself, reversion to the mean will always take place.”

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Pension Policy Podcast: Relieving members of the longevity risk burden

In Episode five of the Pension Policy Series, Allianz Retire+ chief executive David Kane joins Conexus Financial acting co-chief executive and editor-in-chief Aleks Vickovich to assess the commercial landscape for retirement income solutions across super and advice.   Retirement remains only a small part of Australia's $4.5 trillion superannuation pool. Kane says funds have been slow to implement the Retirement Income Covenant, and many responses to date have been cut-and-paste. Funds have built strong accumulation capability over more than three decades, but they lack the balance sheets to guarantee retirement income, raising the prospect that without the right solutions, members may be left carrying longevity risk themselves. 

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