Join the Intelligence Project on Thursday, October 22nd, for a seminar with Dr. Sandy Nairn, an investment management professional and author, who will speak on his latest book, How AI Will Move Markets, which provides a historically-grounded assessment of the future impact of artificial intelligence on financial markets.
This talk explores how artificial intelligence has been a futurist dream for decades, but today it has finally come of age as the many barriers to its implementation have been overcome. This ‘new technology’ has been at least 80 years in the making and suffered its fair share of disappointments along the way, as progress failed to match expectations.
Now at last, however, the elements are in place for it not only to match these expectations but, in due course, to exceed them. Rapid advances in both hardware and software are producing ever better and more powerful solutions. At the same time, it is clear that most people still have a limited understanding of what AI really is and what it is capable of achieving.
In How AI Will Move Markets, Dr. Sandy Nairn explains:
- Why AI is set to become an agent of transformation equivalent, at least in magnitude, to the greatest leaps forward in technology we have so far seen in human history.
- The impact of the rapid development of AI, and what it means for investors.
- The likely financial winners and losers over the next decade, and the economic and social repercussions.
This session is open to Harvard ID holders and will be held under the Chatham House rules. Registration is required. Light refreshments will be served.
Dr. Sandy Nairn is an investment management professional and author. He has over 40 years of experience working in both public and private equity. He currently works with Goodhart Partners on the management of the Global Opportunities Trust, a UK listed investment trust which he founded in 2003. He is the author of Engines That Move Markets, an acclaimed historical analysis of past technological advances, from the railways to the Internet, as well as two other published books on investment themes.
In a personal capacity he is an early-stage investor personally in number of private companies in the technology and finance space. He is currently the Chairman of Malted AI. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Before founding Edinburgh Partners, he was Chief Investment Officer of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, from 2000 to 2003, and Executive Vice President and Director of Global Equity Research at Templeton Investment Management, from 1990 to 2000. Sandy Nairn graduated from the University of Strathclyde in 1982 and in 1985 was awarded a PhD in Economics from the University of Strathclyde/Scottish Business School and has been a CFA charterholder since 1992. He has won multiple performance awards for the management of global equity portfolios.
