The Hoover History Lab (HHL), in partnership with Conexus Financial, a private Australia-based media company that organizes educational conferences for the world’s largest institutional investors, held a conference September 17-19 for chief investment officers and other senior investment professionals from pension funds, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds from more than 20 countries who manage many of the world’s largest pools of capital. The group convenes five times a year at university settings in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. This was the third such symposium hosted by the Hoover Institution at Stanford.
The aim of the symposium is to make available the expertise and unique attributes of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and leading Silicon Valley entities to inform decision-making among institutional investors.
The event, which was attended by over a hundred participants, explored the disruption and opportunities presented by AI and technological advancement, as well as the core investment challenges of risk management, operational excellence and efficiency, and future-looking capital allocation and portfolio construction techniques. The disconnect between how we as investors and managers of risk do things, inherited from the past, and how we could or should do things, today and going forward, remains a challenge. Hoover- and Stanford-affiliated participants included Condoleezza Rice, Doug Rivers, Ross Levine, Drew Endy, Yi Cui, Erik Brynjolfsson, Myron Scholes, John Cochrane, Ashby Monk, and Stephen Kotkin, director of HHL and a conference organizer, along with Amanda White and Colin Tate of Conexus Financial.
Further information is available at FIS Stanford 2024 - Top1000funds.com
