The LQG will debate the motion: This house believes that: “This time is different”. AI and other technologies will boost global growth and justify current asset prices.

2024
LQG events in 2024.
LQG 2024/11/12 – 18:30 – Improving Traditional Portfolios – To Infinity and Beyond Bonds – Rupert Goodall – at Snowflake – IP *OLO* Hybrid
To Infinity and Beyond Bonds – systematic techniques applied to improve risk adjusted returns while applying trend-following and going long/short quality stocks.
LQG 2024/10/08 – 18:30 – Beyond Time Series Information: Beta Estimation via Machine Learning – Tizian Otto – at Bloomberg – IP *OLO* Hybrid
A methodology to approximate a stock’s true unobservable market beta while mitigating systematic biases using machine learning.
LQG 2024/09/04 – 2024/09/07 – 2 Day – Autumn Seminar – at Cambridge – Robinson College – IP *OLO* Hybrid
The LQG 2024 Autumn Seminar – 11 great speakers and topics – in its 38th year.
LQG 2024/07/09 – 18:30 – 3D Investing: Jointly Optimizing Return, Risk, and Sustainability – Clint Howard – at Snowflake – IP *OLO* Hybrid
3D optimization – Optimizing Risk, Return and Sustainability (or something else important). Superior to 2D approach with constraints.
LQG 2024/06/04 – 18:30 – Whither AI? – Gary Kazantsev – at Bloomberg – IP *OLO* Hybrid
AI : What is real, and what is hype? What capabilities? What can’t they do? Explore the current state of the art in AI applications
LQG 2024/05/01 – 18:30 – Machine Learning and the Implementable Efficient Frontier – Lasse Pedersen – at Snowflake – IP *OLO* Hybrid
A framework that produces a superior frontier by integrating trading-cost-aware portfolio optimization with machine learning
LQG 2024/04/23 – 18:30 – Earth, Wind & Fire: Beta, Factors & Alpha – Giulio Renzi-Ricci – at Bloomberg – IP *OLO* Hybrid
Allocating between three fundamental elements of multi-asset portfolio sources of risk: beta, factors, and alpha.
LQG 2024/03/12 – 18:30 – “All models are wrong, but some are useful”: Is forecasting pointless? – Geoff Robinson – at BlackRock – IP *OLO* Hybrid
Geoff looks at the inherent limitations of forecasting, where analysts go wrong, and how models can be made more useful.
LQG 2024/02/13 – 18:30 – Sovereign Credit Default Swaps and the Currency Forward Bias – Giovanni Calice – at BlackRock – IP *OLO* Hybrid
In a setting of defaultable sovereign bonds, the forward bias can be negatively linked to sovereign credit risk…and more.








