Bonafede: Traditional investment processes fail to justify active management fees
Julia Bonafede · Julia Bonafede – Rosetta Analytics (Manager Meetings, EP.04) · Jul 29, 2021 · at 51:01
Julia Bonafede, co-founder of Rosetta Analytics, critiques conventional institutional investment frameworks during a discussion on machine learning in portfolio management.
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“If you think about how rudimentary the other processes are that literally trillions of assets are invested in, at this point in this seat, I'm not quite sure why everybody feels so comfortable with their current frameworks. Because again, you could index and pay a lot less.”
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