Biography
Markus Schuller is the founder and managing partner of Panthera Group, a multi-award-winning firm recognized for pioneering the practical integration of Human and Artificial Intelligence into institutional investment processes. Panthera’s proprietary Decision GPS platform blends behavioral science, and quantitative finance with machine intelligence to optimize investment decision-making. Alongside his entrepreneurial work, Schuller serves as an adjunct and visiting professor at EDHEC Business School, IE Business School, and the International University of Monaco, where he teaches in top-ranked Master in Finance programs. A former hedge fund manager, equity trader, and derivatives trader, he is a published researcher, keynote speaker, and regular contributor to leading academic and professional journals.
AI’s growing capabilities challenge traditional investment skill, shifting competitive advantage toward governance, process, and judgment.
AI offers real promise for investors, but reliability gaps and oversight needs mean its impact will be more measured than early hype suggests.
Without an AI taxonomy, investment firms risk overrelying on agentic AI and underutilizing it for optimal capital allocation.
As AI transforms investment management with powerful tools for decision making, it still exposes markets to cognitive, regulatory, and systemic risks.
Explore how AI is reshaping investment management through augmentation, strategic insight, explainability, and evolving investor competencies.
How can we design a financial system that integrates AI with human intelligence?
Multi-asset managers need a reliable, data-driven foundation for constructing portfolios that are not only diversified but also aligned with global economic trends.
What are the most widely used causality tests in the equity markets?
What is the half-life of financial knowledge and how can professional investors win the race against it?
A speaker's tour in East Africa gave Markus Schuller a compelling window into how four rising economies are working to find a place for their nascent finance sectors in global capital markets.