by CDO Review Staff | Aug 8, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
After training their AI-powered machine learning algorithm for a year, fund managers from China’s Zheshang Fund Management are ready to unleash their creation on the “wildest major stock market in the world.” Here is an excerpt from article published by Bloomberg:...
by CDO Review Staff | Aug 8, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
Merely identifying undervalued stocks is no longer enough. It’s an approach that can be easily copied and rendered useless by its ubiquity. Growth–oriented investment philosophies offer a way out of the logjam. This is the contention of a new sports book written by...
by CDO Review Staff | Aug 8, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
Former quant Bob Henderson tells a cautionary tale about how real life does not always hew to even the most well-constructed models. From Pocket: “The point of the story,” Rebonato continued, “is that you always come to data with a structural model behind”—meaning...
by CDO Review Staff | Aug 8, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
Hedge funds are poking through all manner of alternative data like Twitter feeds, job postings, or Fitbit usage to gain that necessary trading edge that would spell success in tough markets. Hema Parmar filed this report for Bloomberg: “There is not one major hedge...
by CDO Review Staff | Aug 8, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
Two Six Capital co-founder Sajjad Jaffer jokes that that last major technological innovation in private equity was the launch of the Excel spreadsheet. Six years later, Two Six Capital has been involved in over $27 billion worth of closed private equity transactions...
by CDO Review Staff | Aug 8, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms are beginning to muscle out humans in devising investment strategies based on their ability to detect patterns and sniff out trends in real time. Lizzy Gurdus filed this report for CNBC: A.I. has even taken...