Articles by Rob Mannix
The case for believing in a Bessent put
Money market funds could prove critical in efforts to control 10-year yields
Can Bessent lower 10-year yields? Investors have their doubts
Unconventional tools won’t sway bond markets, say buy-siders, with yields as likely to go higher as lower
Haidar Capital founder sees global yield curves steepening
‘Gigantic’ funding needs set to pressure long-dated European and US bonds
Quants should take care with synthetic data – Lehalle
Synthetic data creates an illusion of certainty and risks messing up portfolio construction, says quant
How AI agents could become investing’s crash test dummies
Firms mull the use of chatbot simulations to test organisational set-ups
BlackRock tests ‘quantum cognition’ AI for high-yield bond picks
Study uses Qognitive machine learning model to find liquid substitutes for hard-to-trade securities
Quants try investing like Socrates, with help from AI
Researchers are testing whether LLMs can use methods borrowed from ancient philosophy to answer complex questions
Bank of England mustering unit to model system-wide stresses
Permanent team at UK supervisor will work on buy- and sell-side interactions
Why JP Morgan’s Santos wants to make bad news travel fast
Asset management CRO says sharing information early holds the key to avoiding surprises
Lots to fear, including fear itself
Binary scenarios for key investment risks in this year’s Top 10 are worrying buy-siders
Risk.net’s top 10 investment risks for 2025
Fresh concerns this year include a trade war, a stock market crash and growing social discord
BlackRock on how modern portfolio theory is misunderstood
Standard asset allocation is likely sub-optimal in a changing world, say strategists
BlackRock preps managed futures ETF
Asset manager’s plans could open strategy to $400 billion-plus new asset pool