With 150 institutional investors at the 12th Kapitalmarkt Kolloquium in Frankfurt was fully booked. Thomas Bauerfeind, Executive Partner of leading ALM consultant Protinus, presented on the difficult environment for pension funds given low interest rates, increasing regulatory requirements and unfavorable demographics. Subsequently Dr. Matthias Pötzl, founder and managing director of octimine technologies, presented on trends and metrics in the patent universe. Using maschine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms one can easily identify value drivers and patterns ouf of 22 million patents globally.
