The Allocation Agenda
The Allocation Agenda
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The Allocation Agenda podcast bridges the gap between innovation and insight, bringing together the brightest minds among visionary allocators and investment managers. Our mission is to build a living repository of cutting-edge knowledge powered by the collective expertise of your peer community. We serve as a platform for connection, collaboration, and growth. Join us as we delve into institutional investors' challenges in achieving risk-appropriate returns and how managers adapt to an increasingly competitive market—leveling the playing field through AI-driven technologies that impact everything from compliance and operations to personalization.
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The podcast focuses on various themes relevant to the investment management sector, including institutional investing challenges, relationship dynamics between allocators and managers, and the impact of technology such as AI on investment operations. Specific episodes explore topics like the role of intermediaries in allocator-manager relationships, regulatory challenges shaped by historical acts, and the innovations driving data democratization in investment strategies.
The Allocation Agenda podcast bridges the gap between innovation and insight, bringing together the brightest minds among visionary allocators and investment managers. Our mission is to build a living repository of cutting-edge knowledge powered by the collective expertise of your peer community. We serve as a platform for connection, collaboration, and growth. Join us as we delve into institutional investors’ challenges in achieving risk-appropriate returns and how managers adapt to an increasingly competitive market—leveling the playing field through AI-driven technologies that impact everything from compliance and operations to personalization.
In this episode of The Allocation Agenda, host Steve MacDonald sits down with Pradeep Tekkey, Chief Data Officer at Harbor Capital Advisors, to explore how data is transforming the investment management industry — and why firms that overlook it do so at their own peril.
From growing up in the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands without a television to leading Harbor’s Data Intelligence Center of Excellence, Pradeep’s journey is a masterclass in adaptability, innovation, and strategic vision.
He shares how Harbor Capital is:
- Re-engineering business processes to remove inefficiencies
- Using data lineage and cataloging to improve transparency and decision-making
- Balancing efficiency gains with competitive differentiation
- Building resilience and trust through robust risk and access controls
- Embedding a nimble, 18-month tech roadmap mindset instead of long, rigid strategies
- You’ll hear how Pradeep views data not just as information, but as the lifeblood of active management — essential for delivering insight, efficiency, and performance in a world of fee pressures and fast-moving technology.
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