Stuart Fieldhouse

Private debt as a separately recognised asset class has been growing in importance over the last five years. According to data from Preqin, the number of private debt funds was close to 400 by the middle of last year, and the sector as a whole is outpacing the growth in

In March, Japan’s ¥158trn (€1.2trn) Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) and Sony Computer Science Laboratories (SCSL) developed a deep learning prototype “to detect the investment style of managers”. The resulting AI technology had been programmed to differentiate between fund managers’ styles and associated drifts, “enabling evidence-based, prompt analysis