“JOSEPH PLAZO WARNS: AI CAN TRADE YOUR PORTFOLIO—BUT NOT YOUR PRINCIPLES.”

At a summit of Asia’s brightest minds, the founder of investment firm Plazo Sullivan Roche Capital delivered a message few in finance want to hear: in the age of automation, your principles are the only edge left.MANILA — While markets chase milliseconds, Speed of data. Speed of decisions. Speed of return.Yet inside AIM’s intimate, wood-toned

At a lecture hall in Manila, renowned AI investor Joseph Plazo laid down the gauntlet on what AI can and cannot achieve for the future of finance—and why that distinction matters now more than ever.The air was charged with anticipation. Young scholars—some clutching notebooks, others broadcasting to friends across Asia—waited for a man both c