by CDO Review Staff | Jul 15, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
Data infrastructure firm Refinitive has partnered with alternative data company BattleFin to bring the benefits of alternative datasets to its clients. Hayley McDowell filed this report for The Trade: BattleFin’s alternative datasets, available via its Ensemble...
by CDO Review Staff | Jul 15, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
Blackrock’s Bradley Betts, one of the founders of the firm’s AI Lab, believes that the time will come when AI-powered data algorithms will be able to outperform human fund managers. Right now, however, algorithms are still fatally flawed and they need human...
by CDO Review Staff | Jul 15, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
JP Morgan has formed a partnership with cloud-based portfolio analytics provider StatPro to beef up its Risk and Perfomance Attribution capabilities for portfolio managers. Here is an excerpt from a report published in IBS Intelligence: Samik Chandarana, Head of Data...
by CDO Review Staff | Jul 15, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
There’s a growing urgency in asset management and trading to invest in artificial intelligence. But this task must be undertaken carefully. Michael Heldmann, CIO for the U.S. Systematic Equity team at Allianz Global Investors, wrote this article on AI in...
by CDO Review Staff | Jul 15, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
Fund managers combined quant factors with fundamental analysis and alternative data and just like that a new buzzword—Quantamental Investing—is born. Raghav Bharadwaj filed this report on the rising use of quantamental analysis for Emerj: Investors and financial...
by CDO Review Staff | Jul 15, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
Rising technology costs and other non-compensation costs are putting immense pressure upon the shoulders of asset managers even as fees have fallen an average of 20 percent. Julie Segal filed this report for Institutional Investor: “Two things are happening. Until the...
by CDO Review Staff | Jul 15, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
When it comes to the data used by Credit Suisse’s $650 million quant fund QT, Roberto Jedreicich is the decider. Business Insider followed Jedreicich for a day. With so many alternative data providers popping up, what’s it like to buy data for a large fund? How...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 24, 2019 | CDO Insider
Fashion platform Farfetch has made big changes in this management team starting with the recruitment of Kshitij Kumar from rival Zalandoas the company’s first Chief Data Officer (CDO). Other new hires were Holli Rogers as Chief Brand Officer and Kelly Kowal as EVP of...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 24, 2019 | AI, CDO Insider
A recent Pactera Technologies report titled Artificial Intelligence Localization Winners, Losers, Heroes, Spectators, and You claims that over 85% of all AI projects fail because of lack of support from upper management. Alison DeNisco Rayome filed this report in Tech...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 24, 2019 | CDO Insider
Intelligent data management is opening up more and more use cases for copies of backup data. But using data for more than just backup and recovery purposes may run into an ossified company culture that resists change. Johnny Yu filed this report for TechTarget: The...
