Q Group Panel Discussion: Looking to the Future

Drawing on their vast knowledge, these panelists addressed topics such as regulation, technology, and financing society's challenges; opacity and trust; the social value of finance; and future expected returns. A genuine revolution is taking place in the use of computational techniques for analyzing things that we traditionally think of as being outside the domain of computer science, and we now have many interesting synergies, with robo-advising being a case in point. If you read the mission statements for the American Economic Association and the American Finance Association, you will see a huge contrast.