In partnership with Conexus Financial, a private Australia-based media company that organizes educational conferences for the world’s largest institutional investors, the Hoover History Lab (HHL) held a conference September 19–21 for 80 chief investment officers managing many of the world’s largest pools of capital—pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments. US and global institutions, representing a combined $7.5 trillion dollars in investment capital, attended. The group convenes five times a year at university settings in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Singapore, as well as in Australia. This was the second such meeting hosted by the Hoover Institution at Stanford, after the inaugural Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Traitel in 2017.
The gathering was organized 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. Topics included the disruption and opportunities afforded by artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, applications of neuroscience, and alternative energy sources; the understandings of geopolitical risk, particularly in light of China’s stuggle for dominance and Russia’s war against Ukraine; the sometimes perverse incentives of financial regulation; the future of semiconductors; and megatrends. Hoover- and Stanford-affiliated participants included Condoleezza Rice, Fei-Fei Li, Drew Endy, David Eagleman, Arun Majumdar, Amit Seru, Ross Levine, Myron Scholes, John Cochrane, and Stephen Kotkin, director of HHL and a conference organizer, along with Amanda White and Colin Tate of Conexus Financial. Stanford student research assistants at HHL also took part.
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