View from the Top: Jupiter CEO Slendebroek on why you should beware the false dichotomy of people vs algorithms

Avoid taking algorithms at face value

It is a natural human instinct to look for patterns - one that is particularly evident in the asset management industry, writes Maarten Slendebroek, CEO of Jupiter Asset Management.

Doing so can help us sift unedited data and can aid the formation of successful investment ideas.  While we should celebrate that facility, we must also be aware of its limitations. Our intuition may lead us to formulate rules to make sense of the world, but we must also apply our intellect to test them. Particularly when data sets become very big. Asset managers set to beef up AI integration and recruitment This is especially true of the temptation to create contrasts, setting one concept up in perpetual contradiction to another. We see it a lot in our industry: active vs passive;...