Federico Fontana

Chief Technology Officer XAI Asset Management

Federico Fontana is the Chief Technology Officer at XAI Asset Management. He has been with XAI since its launch in 2017, conducting quantitative research and development for systematic macro strategies, as well as overseeing the data and trading infrastructure of the firm. His current focus is on the applications of reinforcement learning for portfolio construction and alpha generation.

Federico holds an MSc in Computational Finance with distinction from UCL, an MSc in Quantitative Finance with distinction from University of Verona and a BSc in Economics and Finance from University of Modena.

Agenda Day 1

2:00 PM Portfolio construction and optimisation across a diverse global terrain

  • Is building and maintaining a portfolio across asset classes, geographies and regimes firstly, possible and secondly, desirable? 
  • How can an organisation or manager operationally manage a multitude of nuanced markets and what opportunities present? 
  • How much diversification is ‘’too much’’ diversification? 
  • Are there common threads and themes across markets which outwardly appear fundamentally different? 


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