“MACHINES CAN WIN TRADES. BUT ONLY PEOPLE WIN TRUST.”

At a summit of future financial powerhouses, Joseph Plazo—founder of the AI-led fund Plazo Sullivan Roche—delivered a speech that broke the rhythm of the room.Inside a packed auditorium at the Asian Institute of Management, Plazo, best known for building AI that rarely loses, stepped back from the code.“If you hand your portfolio to a machine

The mood was electric, the room expectant. 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 what they received hit harder than any forecast.---### The Opening Shot Was a Whisper of Doubt Plazo didn’t bri