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From the floor at FILS 2026:  Fixed income leaders discuss the data gap in AI strategy

Fixed income leaders are struggling to execute their AI ambitions, not for lack of enthusiasm, but because the data foundation underneath those ambitions isn’t ready.

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The Gap Is Widening: Inside the Conversations Reshaping How Hedge Funds Operate

Insights from 115+ hedge fund leaders at Clearwater Connect New York on how AI, data infrastructure, and operations are redefining competitive advantage.

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Leveraging the IIOR: An Insurer’s guide to the 2026 Insurance Investment Outsourcing Report 

Leverage the 2026 IIOR, from total outsourced insurance AUM and growth to the asset classes and managers reshaping the market.

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Three Things We Learned at the Energy Trading Leaders Summit in Amsterdam 

Here are the three takeaways that stayed with us — and what each one means for how trading desks should think about AI for energy trading.

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A consistent view of risk across the organisation

Recent geopolitical risk and market volatility have accelerated the trend among energy firms for enterprise risk management and renewed the focus on scenario- and stress-testing capabilities, says Brian Wood at Beacon by Clearwater.

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Tue 12 May 2026
Private Credit Has Gone Mainstream: What This Fast-Growing Asset Class Demands from Institutional Investors

Based on insights from Clearwater Analytics and Invesco’s webinar: Unlocking Private Credit in Institutional Portfolios: From Allocation to Operational Reality

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Fri 08 May 2026
Notes from the PRMIA Webinar: Five Questions on Factor Risk Modeling

The recent PRMIA webinar on the future of risk and performance generated a number of thoughtful audience questions, several of which there was not time to address in full during the live session. The following are extended responses to five of those questions, on topics that came up repeatedly during the panel discussion and in the Q&A.

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Fri 08 May 2026
Unités de compte : quand la complexité devient levier de compétitivité

Unités de compte : quand la complexité devient levier de compétitivité

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Thu 30 Apr 2026
Fundamental vs. statistical risk models: what every portfolio manager should know

Understand the differences between cross-sectional, time-series, and statistical risk factor models — and why interpretability matters for portfolio attribution, construction, and decision-making.

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Fri 01 May 2026
The Hidden Risk in Insurance Operating Models

The biggest risk in insurance portfolios right now is not a misallocated asset or an unexpected rate move. It is the growing distance between the complexity of what APAC insurers are managing and the capability of the systems they are using to manage it.

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Building an AI-powered markdown knowledge base system for your engineering team

Explore how to build an AI-powered markdown knowledge base that grounds AI agents in your team’s documentation and slashes onboarding time.

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Why pre-trade compliance is the most important system you don’t have

Most compliance breaches aren’t discovered at order entry. They’re discovered at end of day after settlement, or during a client or auditor’s  operational due diligence review.  For firms without effective portfolio compliance, every order sent is a potential liability that hasn’t been validated yet. Here’s what makes that frustrating: pre-trade compliance is one of the most effective risk mitigation tools in investment management. The technology exists. The…

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Stealth Risks Insurers Aren’t Pricing In

The stealth risks building inside APAC insurance portfolios are not inevitable. They are the predictable result of growing faster than the infrastructure can support, and they are addressable for firms willing to treat operational capability as a strategic priority rather than an administrative one.

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