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How the investment world is trying to navigate geopolitics

As the city of Xiamen, China, is seen in the background, wartime anti-tank obstacles sit on a beach on October 7, 2023 in Kinmen, Taiwan.
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An industry that has been hoovering up mathematicians to devise new trading strategies is now leaning on political scientists for guidance.

5 July, 2024 by Nicholas Megaw, Madison Darbyshire and James Fontanella-Khan in New York

Attended by prominent figures such as tech billionaire Michael Dell, Blackstone chief Stephen Schwarzman and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of Saudi Arabia’s $925bn Public Investment Fund, the FII Priority conference in Miami in February was one of the