
The Future of the Index Industry with Wilshire Indexes CEO Mark Makepeace
06/20/23 • 24 min
Mark Makepeace, CEO of Wilshire Indexes, and Jeff Jacobs, Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at Solomon Partners discuss how new technologies, data sources and collaborations are driving changes in the global index industry. The conversation explores the growth of passive funds, the dynamics impacting ESG investing and the enormous potential for evolving technologies like AI to fundamentally reshape the investment industry.
Mark Makepeace, CEO of Wilshire Indexes, and Jeff Jacobs, Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at Solomon Partners discuss how new technologies, data sources and collaborations are driving changes in the global index industry. The conversation explores the growth of passive funds, the dynamics impacting ESG investing and the enormous potential for evolving technologies like AI to fundamentally reshape the investment industry.
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Solomon Partners Presents - The Future of the Index Industry with Wilshire Indexes CEO Mark Makepeace
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Mark Makepeace (00:02):
What we've found is we can use AI to pick up the early signals, which tell us when those factor momentums are changing. We can begin to create investment strategies and indices which outperform the market. And it will reshape not just the index industry, it will reshape the investment indus
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