At a summit of Asia’s most promising minds, the founder of investment firm Plazo Sullivan Roche Capital dropped a truth bomb few fund managers dare to voice: in the age of automation, your principles are the only edge left.MANILA — In a time of hyper-acceleration, everything is being optimized for speed—data, trades, even thought.But last Thu
In a rare address to Asia’s future corporate elite, the founder of Plazo Sullivan Roche shared a hard-hitting reality the finance world rarely acknowledges: what machines can't trade is your moral compass.MANILA — While markets chase milliseconds, the financial world demands instant everything: information, execution, profits.Yet inside AIM’s
It began like a celebration. Inside the intellectual sanctum of the University of the Philippines, students who topped their fields in AI, economics, and data science 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 bring slides