Therrien: Top-growing future asset managers will combine quant and fundamental strategies
Mario Therrien · Mario Therrien – The Canadian Pension Model (Capital Allocators, EP.12) · Jun 19, 2017 · at 46:12
Mario Therrien, Senior Vice President at CDPQ, predicts how money management firms must evolve to outperform future markets.
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“I think that, you know, there's been some people talking about sort of the mix between quant and fundamental. I think in the future, the managers or the money managers that will sort of grow the best will be the people that will marry both discipline.”
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