Problem
1. Are you aware of firms that have attempted to transition from discretionary investments to ML-led investments, or blending them into what they call "quantamental" funds?
(a) Have they succeeded?
(b) What are the cultural difficulties involved in this transition?
2. What is the most important open problem in mathematical finance? If this problem was resolved, how could:
(a) regulators use it to grant investment management licenses?
(b) investors use it to allocate funds?
(c) firms use it to reward researchers?