In a rare address to Asia’s future corporate elite, the founder of the AI-driven investment house Plazo Sullivan Roche delivered a message few in finance want to hear: in a world of algorithms, human judgment is your last unfair advantage.MANILA — The world is obsessed with speed. Speed of data. Speed of decisions. Speed of return.Yet inside AI
It began like a celebration. Within UP’s hallowed halls in Manila, delegates from institutions like NUS, Kyoto, HKUST, and AIM expected another chapter in AI’s victory lap.But that’s not what they got.---### The Codebreaker Who Broke the Narrative Plazo didn’t bring slides. There were no metrics to gawk at. No buzzwords to tweet.Just a li
In a rare address to Asia’s future corporate elite, the founder of Plazo Sullivan Roche dropped a truth bomb few fund managers dare to voice: what machines can't trade is your moral compass.MANILA — While markets chase milliseconds, the financial world demands instant everything: information, execution, profits.But last Thursday, inside a warm,
They came with reverence in their eyes and code on their minds.At the University of the Philippines’ grand auditorium, a collection of future technocrats and quant prodigies waited to hear Joseph Plazo’s vision of tomorrow.But instead, they were handed a reality few had expected.---### The Opening Shot Was a Whisper of Doubt Plazo didn’t bri