Breaking down your broad universe of food groups into their more basic elements and nutrients is now part of our daily habits. Checking labels for sugar, fat, carbs and protein content isn’t just the remit of Californian health freaks but something that is part of every shopper’s habit nowadays. Although worlds apart from a chef preparing a meal in a restaurant, most asset managers will look at factors in the same way we look at key ingredients: factors are to assets what nutrients are to food…
Historical data: is it really that helpful?
It’s always been my view when looking at projects in machine learning that, at their heart, the real value lay in the data (the big data component) and that the math behind them was almost secondary. ‘It was always better to have good data and average algos than the other way around’ the saying went.
A picture is worth a thousand words. How asset managers can use animated explainer videos to sell their funds
As an allocator to funds, sitting through countless power point presentations becomes tedious to say the least. After a long week of sitting down in meetings listening to middle aged men in fancy suits go over what appears to be the same presentation over and over, it’s hard by Friday night to remember who was doing what.