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Quant LetterNo. 79

December 2024, Week 3

187 items across 10 sections, as sent to readers on 18 December 2024. Paper titles open their ML-Quant page; ↗ goes to the source.

arXiv

Quantitative-finance and ML-for-finance preprints from arXiv.

28 items

Finance9

01

OU Pairs Trading

A preliminary study shows that a pairs trading strategy using the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process captures trends but underperforms due to non-stationary pairs and parameter tuning limitations.

8 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

02

Deep Covariance Forecasting

A new method for forecasting asset return covariance matrices using a Riemannian-geometry-aware deep learning framework outperforms traditional methods by considering the geometric properties of the matrices.

8 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

03

PolyModel Hedge Fund Portfolios

The use of machine learning and PolyModel feature selection in hedge fund investments improves returns and portfolio optimization, but also increases volatility, questioning the reliability of larger funds.

6 shares3 citations todaySource ↗

04

Deep Factor Residuals Trading

A replication of the Deep Learning Statistical Arbitrage methodology on recent U.S. equity data shows strong performance, suggesting potential overfitting, specific market conditions, or insufficient accounting for transaction costs and market impact.

5 sharesSource ↗

05

Interbank Market Analysis

The research explores the interdependence of banks in financial networks, revealing that smaller banks withdrew from high-value trades during the financial crisis.

5 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

06

SP 00 Prediction

The study uses machine learning to predict S&P 500 trends, concluding that KNN is best for short-term predictions and XGBoost for long-term forecasts.

5 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

07

Market-Neutral Strategy

The report outlines a market-neutral investment strategy for NYSE equities, demonstrating superior performance with risk parity.

4 sharesSource ↗

08

Complex Systems Distributions

The study introduces a statistical model to evaluate risk for rare events in complex systems, aiming to apply this model to financial markets.

4 shares3 citations todaySource ↗

09

AIEnhanced Factor Analysis

The project uses a blend of technical, market, and statistical factors with machine learning to predict stock market performance, emphasizing the benefits of merging financial expertise with computational tools.

4 sharesSource ↗

Economics8

01

Multiplexing and Diffusion

The study finds that multiplex social and economic networks can slow the spread of simple information but can either hinder or boost the spread of complex information, affecting inequality in outcomes.

13 shares3 citations todaySource ↗

02

Gender Identity Evolution

The analysis suggests that nonbinary gender identity could become dominant due to its adaptability, using a game-based approach and a genetic learning algorithm to study evolutionary dynamics.

8 sharesSource ↗

03

Youth Views on In-game Gambling

The report shows that Large Language Models can effectively identify patterns in digital games' gambling-like elements, but struggle with complex tasks.

7 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

05

Optimal Information Usage

The study creates a model to balance the use of beneficial information in competitive situations against the risk of getting caught.

6 sharesSource ↗

06

Power-Law Wealth Distributions

The research uses a feedback loop model to explain the differences in wealth distribution in the US and Japan, based on crowd interactions.

5 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

07

Organizational Culture and Industry

The paper finds a positive correlation between a progressive organizational culture and the use of Industry 4.0 technologies in Swiss companies.

4 shares13 citations todaySource ↗

Miscellaneous5

01

Polarization in Similarity

Research indicates that digital platform recommendation systems can create echo chambers, reinforcing existing beliefs and limiting exposure to differing views.

13 shares2 citations todaySource ↗

02

Prediction-Enhanced Monte Carlo

The Prediction-Enhanced Monte Carlo framework uses machine learning to enhance the efficiency of Monte Carlo simulations, especially in large, path-dependent problems.

11 shares5 citations todaySource ↗

03

FinGPT for Stock Prediction

A data-driven method that includes news spread, contextual data, and explicit instructions enhances the accuracy of large language models in predicting short-term stock price movements.

10 shares5 citations todaySource ↗

04

CostAware Portfolios

Research suggests portfolio models that include transaction costs, highlighting the importance of considering these costs when rebalancing a portfolio.

6 shares2 citations todaySource ↗

05

Integrative Market Sentiment Analysis

The combination of Convolutional Neural Networks and Gated Recurrent Units offers a comprehensive analysis of stock market sentiment and effective early warnings of future risks.

3 shares10 citations todaySource ↗

Historical Trending6

01

Productivity Measurement with Large Language Models

Researchers have developed a method to label unstructured text, which was used to analyze clinical trials, showing that the number and type of trials have remained consistent since 2010, contradicting the perceived decrease in pharmaceutical research.

27 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

02

ChatGPT Research in Accounting and Finance

The article reviews recent research on Large Language Models (LLMs) in accounting and finance, highlighting three main themes, suggesting areas for future research, and offering technical advice for researchers using LLMs.

24 shares99 citations todaySource ↗

03

Portfolio Selection Game with Partial Information

The study investigates mean-variance portfolio selection under relative performance criteria, discovering that such criteria can cause a self-perpetuating decrease in investors' wealth, particularly when information is incomplete.

23 shares5 citations todaySource ↗

04

Soccer Skill Evaluation Model

The Soccer Factor Model (SFM) uses data from over 33,000 matches to accurately evaluate a soccer player's performance, separating individual skill from team strength.

19 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

05

Costefficient RLHF Data Construction

An auction mechanism is introduced to enhance cost-efficiency in fine-tuning large language models using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, focusing on quality feedback and model performance.

14 shares3 citations todaySource ↗

06

Stochastic Control ML Algorithm

A machine learning algorithm is presented for solving complex stochastic control problems using a deep neural network, showing good convergence properties without depending on the Bellman equation.

12 shares1 citation todaySource ↗

SSRN

Working papers in finance and economics from SSRN.

52 items

Quantitative30

01

Bitcoin Price Forecasting

The new model predicts Bitcoin's price based on factors like institutional adoption and supply shock, emphasizing the role of these factors in Bitcoin's price increase.

415 sharesSource ↗

02

Monetary Policy Impact

The study reveals that companies with access to big data adjust their capital investment more in response to monetary policy shocks, especially if the data feedback loop is strong.

6 sharesSource ↗

04

Mutual Fund Liquidity Fees

A theoretical model indicates that liquidity management tools are essential in reducing redemption pressures and maintaining market stability, with liquidity fees increasing redemption incentives and exit risks.

11 sharesSource ↗

05

Updating Online Reviews

The study observes the review updating phenomenon where consumers alter their existing reviews, demonstrating that updates usually lessen the severity of the review ratings and content.

130 sharesSource ↗

06

Portfolio Variable Selection

Machine learning methods can choose predictors for optimal portfolio choice, improving portfolio performance and decreasing portfolio risk, leading to high Sharpe ratios.

5 sharesSource ↗

07

Corporate ESG Narrative Transmission

The study uses Latent Dirichlet Allocation and the XGBoost algorithm to predict the link between the topics in ESG reports and the investment decisions of institutional investors, providing guidance for institutional investors and corporations.

6 sharesSource ↗

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Warranty Accuracy: Machine Learning vs Human Estimates

Machine Learning vs Human Estimates: Machine learning models have been found to be more accurate than human experts in predicting warranty provisions in accounting due to human errors like aggregation bias and historical cost anchoring.

4 sharesSource ↗

16

Dynamic FX Hedging

Dynamic foreign exchange hedging strategies, considering factors like trend and interest rate differential, can improve returns and manage risk better than static ones.

41 sharesSource ↗

17

SP 00 Volatility

Simple volatility forecasts can stabilize volatility as effectively as complex models, enhancing stock market investment strategies.

6 sharesSource ↗

18

Legal Challenges in AI

The rise of AI-generated content online may corrupt data sets, potentially causing the failure of new AI models, suggesting reliance on pre-2022 data.

44 sharesSource ↗

19

ML Forecasting for Investments

The MLAGRUPPO model, combining machine learning and attention mechanism, can improve stock risk prediction and intelligent investment decision-making.

11 sharesSource ↗

20

Optimal Scaling in Computing

Machine learning can aid in predicting optimal scaling decisions for Azure Function Apps, reducing cold starts and improving resource use.

7 sharesSource ↗

21

SoC Estimation for Batteries

Comparing different estimation methods for Li-ion battery charge in electric vehicles can enhance Battery Management Systems, making them safer and more energy-efficient.

5 sharesSource ↗

22

Mutual Fund Redemptions

Mutual fund investor redemptions can reduce the liquidity of their equity holdings, with investor sentiment and stock returns being factors that negatively affect liquidity.

6 sharesSource ↗

Financial22

01

Investor Response to Exchange Rate Shocks

Monetary policy changes cause a shift in asset allocation, with wealthier individuals more likely to invest in risky securities, according to a study on household finance in open economies.

5 sharesSource ↗

02

Index Inclusion and Corporate Actions

Inclusion in a stock index increases market attention, influencing company investments and stock-based management pay, with companies investing more to minimize shareholder losses and reduce management compensation risk.

2 sharesSource ↗

03

Portfolio Optimization with GOPALS

The traditional method for portfolio optimization is prone to errors, resulting in suboptimal portfolios, and current techniques fail to fully address these issues.

3 sharesSource ↗

05

Bitcoin Price Forecasting

The research introduces a CNNLSTM model with various indicators for better Bitcoin price prediction, indicating potential for stable Bitcoin investment.

3 sharesSource ↗

08

Formula Investing

The research compares four investment strategies, finding that none consistently outperforms the others and that their effectiveness has declined since 2000.

570 sharesSource ↗

09

Regulation CDO

The article explains how the Recourse Rule made top-rated ABS CDO tranches more attractive to BHCs during the 2007-2009 crisis, resulting in higher average estimated debt guarantees.

62 sharesSource ↗

10

Stock Returns

The study uses over a thousand machine learning models to predict stock returns, finding that design choices significantly affect predictions, with nonstandard error being 59% higher than standard error.

12 shares5 citations todaySource ↗

11

Sturm-Liouville Theory

The paper introduces a new approach to applying SturmLiouville theory in quantitative finance, offering innovative methods for spectral decomposition and new applications for credit risk modeling, interest rate derivatives, and portfolio optimization.

2 sharesSource ↗

12

Portfolio Optimization

The research suggests a portfolio optimization method that effectively uses information about the top 500 U.S. stocks, resulting in more stable weights and consistently better performance than value-weighted portfolios.

3 sharesSource ↗

13

Corporate Debt

The study examines the factors influencing active debt management for global firms, finding significant variation in prepayment across bonds and loans and decreased effectiveness of debt refinancing in tight global credit conditions.

14 sharesSource ↗

14

Memory in Markets

The paper investigates how memory affects the belief formation of financial market participants, finding significant recall distortions in consensus earnings forecasts of sell-side stock analysts, with analysts over-recalling distant historical episodes and selectively forgetting past positive events.

7 sharesSource ↗

15

Market Beta Assessment

A novel method for comparing market beta estimates to unobserved true betas is introduced, applicable to any beta estimate and requiring few assumptions about the true asset pricing model.

5 sharesSource ↗

16

Ethereum ETFs and Institutional Adoption

The 2024 approval of Ethereum exchange-traded funds is a pivotal moment for institutional involvement in digital assets, potentially improving market liquidity, attracting institutional capital, and changing views on cryptocurrency as an asset class.

2 sharesSource ↗

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Event-Driven Connectedness Timing

A study of nearly 900 oil-related events from 1987 to 2022 shows that geopolitical events consistently cause more volatility in energy commodities than economic or natural events.

7 sharesSource ↗

18

DCCS Model Dynamics

The Dynamic Covenant Capital Structure model integrates Debt/EBITDA covenants into capital structure decisions, providing insights into how covenants influence corporate finance policies and helping firms optimize leverage and financial flexibility.

2 sharesSource ↗

19

Hybrid Model Calibration

The calibration of cross asset hybrid models for valuing and simulating exposure of complex financial instruments is explored, with a focus on understanding volatilities and correlations of interest and exchange rates.

3 sharesSource ↗

20

Gold in Decision-Making

An educational framework is proposed for studying gold's role in economic theory, focusing on its functions as a safe-haven asset, store of value, alternative to fiat currency, and its relationship with inflation and market volatility.

2 sharesSource ↗

21

Overconfidence and Trading Volume

A study finds a strong positive correlation between investor overconfidence and trading volume, indicating that overconfident investors tend to trade more, even when advised otherwise.

2 sharesSource ↗

22

Fraud and Financial Health

Accounting fraud significantly exacerbates financial distress among individuals exposed to it, with uninformed financial decisions made prior to fraud revelation increasing individuals' financial distress post revelation.

17 sharesSource ↗

RePEc

Economics working papers from RePEc's NEP field reports.

21 items

Finance4

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Optimal Portfolio Analysis

The article presents a method for optimizing financial portfolios in markets with unpredictable volatility, using an approximation method and controlling errors with utility function expansion.

17 sharesSource ↗

02

Wealth Bias in Sin Stocks

The research reveals a correlation between the wealth of European societies and their investment in sin stocks, with wealthier Northern European countries yielding higher returns and familiarity leading to less rejection of sin stocks.

16 sharesSource ↗

03

Solution Uniqueness in Portfolio

The paper discusses the lack of solution uniqueness in mean-deviation portfolio optimization, suggesting that uniqueness cannot be expected in cooperative investment and proposing a resolution based on law-invariance.

13 sharesSource ↗

04

Portfolio Optimization with Transfer Entropy

The study incorporates transfer entropy into portfolio optimization to account for asset dependencies, showing that this method can effectively manage portfolio stability and provide a strong alternative to traditional risk measures.

11 sharesSource ↗

Statistical7

01

Equity Premium Forecasting

Machine learning methods show strong in-sample forecasting for equity premium but struggle to beat the historical average benchmark out-of-sample due to small datasets and low signal-to-noise ratio.

28 sharesSource ↗

02

Predicting Stock Market Crises

Extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) is the best machine learning algorithm for predicting African stock market crises, with historical stock prices and exchange rates as key predictors.

22 sharesSource ↗

03

Factors Affecting Investor Decision

A study found that the decision to sell government retail bonds and the hold period are greatly influenced by their comparative return performance against other investments, as shown by logistic regression analysis and decision tree classification.

21 sharesSource ↗

04

Green Finance in Economic Forecasting

The research assesses the effectiveness of different machine learning models in economic forecasting, highlighting the deep multi-layer perceptron model as the most accurate and adaptable, and the decision tree as the best with bootstrap bagging technique.

18 sharesSource ↗

05

Systemic Risk in FinTech and Traditional Institutions

The research applies machine learning to study systemic risk factors in FinTech and traditional financial institutions, revealing that feature importance changes with market conditions and macroeconomic variables significantly influence systemic risk.

14 sharesSource ↗

06

Corporate Governance in Financial Distress in China

The research uses the LightGBM machine learning method to study the effect of corporate governance indicators on financial distress in Chinese public firms, identifying institutional ownership, managerial ownership, and executive compensation disparity as key indicators.

13 sharesSource ↗

Machine Learning8

01

Machine Learning in Credit Scoring

Research in a Chinese internet company shows machine learning credit scoring models prioritize data trails over default risk, reducing human experts' role to machine learning facilitators.

43 sharesSource ↗

03

Machine Learning Clustering in Finance

The article reviews machine learning clustering techniques used in financial markets and stock investing, emphasizing their potential to improve processes and reduce human errors, but also acknowledging their limitations.

27 sharesSource ↗

04

Automated Web Content Filtering

A machine learning system was created to filter and block inappropriate web content, capable of sending real-time alerts to guardians, logging objectionable content, and working in private browsing modes.

24 sharesSource ↗

Deep Learning1

01

Predicting Salmon Prices with Deep Learning and Sentiment Analysis

The article discusses a study that uses deep learning models and sentiment analysis to predict salmon prices. The study found that the accuracy of predictions improved when sentiment scores from salmon-related news were included. The hybrid CNN-LSTM model performed the best in these predictions.

19 sharesSource ↗

Historical Trending1

01

Impact of Innovation News on Illiquid Stocks

The study finds that news on product innovations significantly influences the return of illiquid stocks, unlike other innovation-related news. Only news about significant corporate announcements positively impacts these returns, as determined through machine learning and expert analysis.

5 sharesSource ↗

Machine learning

The general machine-learning papers the letter carried in 2023-25.

17 items

Recently Published10

01

CAPD: Portrait Avatars

Portrait Avatars: CAP4D is a method that uses a unique model to create and animate realistic 4D portrait avatars from any number of reference images in real time.

228 shares60 citations todaySource ↗

02

Temporal Gaussian Video Hierarchy

The paper introduces Temporal Gaussian Hierarchy, a new 4D representation that efficiently models long volumetric videos, reducing the number of Gaussian primitives and maintaining constant GPU memory usage.

135 shares80 citations todaySource ↗

03

Stereo4D: Learning Motion from Videos

Learning Motion from Videos: The authors have developed a system that mines high-quality 4D reconstructions from internet videos, allowing for the prediction of structure and 3D motion from real-world image pairs.

38 shares94 citations todaySource ↗

04

GenEx: Explorable World

Explorable World: GenEx is a system that plans complex world exploration, guided by its generative imagination about the surrounding environments, enabling AI agents to perform complex tasks.

25 shares24 citations todaySource ↗

05

FeatGS: Visual Foundation Models

Visual Foundation Models: Feat2GS is a framework that extracts 3D Gaussians attributes from unposed images, allowing for the probing of 3D awareness for geometry and texture through novel view synthesis.

22 shares29 citations todaySource ↗

06

Causal Diffusion Transformers

The article discusses Causal Diffusion, a framework that enhances diffusion models' performance and allows a seamless shift between autoregressive and diffusion generation modes, achieving top results on the ImageNet generation benchmark.

20 shares34 citations todaySource ↗

07

Spectral Image Tokenizer

The paper suggests a novel method for tokenizing images for autoregressive transformer-based image generation, using a discrete wavelet transform for a coarse-to-fine representation, offering benefits like improved next-token prediction and the ability to reconstruct varying resolution images.

20 shares15 citations todaySource ↗

08

MaxInfoRL

The research introduces MaxInfoRL, a reinforcement learning framework that balances exploration by directing it towards informative transitions, demonstrating superior performance in challenging exploration problems and complex visual control tasks.

14 shares38 citations todaySource ↗

09

PanSplat

The paper introduces PanSplat, a feed-forward method for wide-baseline panorama view synthesis supporting up to 4K resolution, featuring a unique spherical 3D Gaussian pyramid with a Fibonacci lattice arrangement for improved image quality and reduced information redundancy.

14 shares26 citations todaySource ↗

10

Apollo

The study explores the mechanisms behind video understanding in Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), showing that smaller models' design and training decisions effectively transfer to larger models, and introduces Apollo, a family of LMMs that excel across different model sizes.

14 shares97 citations todaySource ↗

Historical Trending7

01

Robot Motion Generation Review

The paper reviews 50 years of robotics research, discussing the evolution of methods for generating robot motion and the potential for integrating different techniques.

139 shares7 citations todaySource ↗

02

FlashRNN: Hardware-Optimized

Hardware-Optimized: The article introduces FlashRNN, a hardware-optimized version of traditional RNNs, which improves speed and processing capabilities for sequence modeling, outperforming existing models.

120 shares6 citations todaySource ↗

03

FlowEdit: Text-Based Editing

Text-Based Editing: The study presents FlowEdit, a new text-based editing method for pre-trained text-to-image models, which outperforms the inversion approach by offering superior results at a lower transport cost.

52 shares232 citations todaySource ↗

04

ObjectMate: Object Insertion Recurrence

Object Insertion Recurrence: The article introduces ObjectMate, a method for creating photorealistic compositions without altering the object's identity, eliminating the need for tuning.

40 shares19 citations todaySource ↗

05

Efficient Online Reinforcement Learning

The study introduces Warm-start RL (WSRL), a method for improving reinforcement learning initializations without offline data, leading to faster learning and better performance.

37 shares70 citations todaySource ↗

06

Length Optimization in Conformal Prediction

The research presents Conformal Prediction with Length-Optimization (CPL), a framework that creates optimal prediction sets while maintaining conditional validity under different covariate shifts.

33 shares46 citations todaySource ↗

07

Concept Bottleneck Language Models

The paper presents Concept Bottleneck Protein Language Models (CB-pLM), a generative language model that provides control and interpretability in protein generation tasks without affecting performance.

24 shares24 citations todaySource ↗

Papers with code

Papers that shipped their code, from the Papers with Code feed (2023-25).

9 items

Trending4

Rising5

02

LLMs as Judges: Evaluation Methods

Evaluation Methods: The article critically analyzes the shortcomings of LLM judges and explores potential future improvements.

117 shares

04

Lyra Speech-Centric Framework

The development of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is crucial for a more versatile and efficient AI.

101 shares

05

Evolved Universal Transformer Memory

Earlier methods propose cost reduction in modern foundation models by selectively removing context parts while preserving original performance.

89 shares

GitHub

Repositories the letter featured.

10 items

Finance5

02

Stocks Portfolio Tracker

A portfolio tracker for stocks, futures, and options with potential integration of Interactive Brokers IBKR TWS API.

58 shares

03

AI Jupyter Notebook

An AI-powered Jupyter Notebook capable of generating and editing code, fixing errors, and interacting with data.

1,074 shares

04

FilterNet Time Series Forecasting

The official implementation of the 'FilterNet: Harnessing Frequency Filters for Time Series Forecasting' research paper.

102 shares

05

Ready Datasets for ML

A hub offering ready-to-use datasets for machine learning models and efficient data manipulation tools.

19,348 shares

Trending5

01

StackBlitz Bolt

The article explores the use of LLM in quickly editing and deploying full-stack web applications.

5,582 shares

02

Thammo4uva Tradier Wrapper

The article presents a Python wrapper specifically designed for the Tradier brokerage API.

19 shares

03

HashiCorp Nomad Orchestrator

The article details Nomad, a versatile workload orchestrator that can deploy different types of applications, integrated with Consul and Vault.

15,031 shares

04

VRCAR VMD Python

The article discusses the application of Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) using Python.

349 shares

05

Google OR Tools

The article gives a comprehensive overview of the Operations Research tools provided by Google.

11,354 shares

News

Industry news: funds, hiring, markets and regulation.

20 items

Quantitative10

01

Subjectivity in AI Predictions

The Machine Learning Times article explores the difficulty of incorporating subjectivity in AI's predictive value for quantitative analysis.

10 shares

02

Quant Capital Closure

Business Insider reports that Seven Eight Capital, a quantitative hedge fund, is closing due to substantial investor withdrawals.

7 shares

03

Hedge Funds Cut Bearish Bets

According to CFTC data, hedge funds and leveraged investors have minimized their negative positions on US five-year Treasury futures to the lowest since July.

7 shares

04

Quant Hilbert merges with Liberty AI

Following its recent acquisition, Hilbert Group AB has incorporated Liberty Road Capital's advanced AI technology into its trading and analytics system.

6 shares

05

UConn Changes Hedge Fund

BNN Bloomberg reports that the University of Connecticut's endowment is transitioning from hedge funds to buffer ETFs for a more cost-effective risk management approach in its $634m portfolio.

5 shares

06

Statar Capital's Return

Statar Capital, a Miami-based hedge fund managed by Ron Ozer, has recovered from a 13% loss in Q2 with a 23% increase by mid-December.

4 shares

07

Digital Assets Funds Expand

Digital asset investment products experienced $3.2bn inflows last week, pushing the year-to-date total to $44.5bn, a fourfold increase from any previous year, says CoinShares.

4 shares

08

Hedge Funds Favor Ether

Hedge funds have reached a record high in short positions on ether futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, with contracts hitting an all-time high of 6349, reports BeinCrypto.

3 shares

09

Marshall Wace Ventures to Abu Dhabi

Marshall Wace, a London-based hedge fund managing $69bn in assets, has expanded its operations to Abu Dhabi, joining the increasing number of finance firms in the UAE.

3 shares

10

New Hedge Fund Launches Decrease

The number of new hedge fund launches is expected to hit a 24-year low, with only 123 funds launched globally by the end of September this year, according to Reuters.

3 shares

Miscellaneous10

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Third Point Options

Third Point hedge fund is exploring strategic options to address the significant discount between its share price and asset value due to pressure from activist investors.

3 shares

02

British Founder Sentenced

Sanjay Shah, founder of Solo Capital Partners, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Danish court for a £1.3bn tax fraud scheme.

3 shares

03

Two Seas Capital Appointments

Two Seas Capital has appointed Altaf Mackeen as Managing Director and Head of Research, effective from 1 January 2025.

3 shares

04

Magellan PM Resigns

Portfolio Manager Britney Lam has left Dubai-based hedge fund firm Magellan Capital just before its anticipated $700m launch.

3 shares

05

Citadel Hires Elliott PM

Citadel has hired a second Portfolio Manager from Elliott Investment Management, suggesting a possible shift towards activist strategies.

3 shares

06

MFA Calls for Form PF Deadline Extension

The MFA and three other trade associations have requested the SEC and CFTC to delay the compliance deadline for the revised Form PF requirements by six months.

3 shares

08

Brazilian Hedge Funds Outperforming

In November, Brazilian hedge funds, which usually oppose local markets, experienced substantial profits due to fiscal worries causing market instability.

2 shares

Podcasts

Episodes on markets, quant methods and economics.

10 items

Quantitative5

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Fabio Ruggeri: Market Strategies

Market Strategies: The podcast explores the transition from traditional to technical data in market strategies, the evolution of options trading, and MenthorQ's tools for complex options data analysis.

27 shares

02

AI and Machine Learning

The CQF Institute will host an AI and Machine Learning in Quant Finance Conference on 17th September 2025, with speaker and agenda details pending.

17 shares

03

Seth Cogswell: Legacy Strategies

Legacy Strategies: Seth Cogswell from Running Oak Capital discusses his investment strategy aimed at maximizing earnings growth and minimizing large drawdowns, and the principles behind the Running Oaks ETF RUINN launch.

13 shares

04

Spreadbites: Credit Trends

Credit Trends: The Spreadbites podcast discusses key trends in credit markets, featuring insights from Stephen Dulake, Daniel Lamy, Nelson Jantzen, and Samantha Azzarello.

9 shares

05

Matthias Hanauer: Value Investing

Value Investing: Matthias Hanauer discusses the complexities of value investing, the influence of various factors, the potential of emerging markets and small cap stocks, and the integration of machine learning in investment strategies.

9 shares

Related5

01

AI Warfare & Autonomous Weapons

The Data Science at Home podcast discusses the use of AI in the military, including autonomous drones and surveillance tech, and the ethical concerns surrounding these advancements.

8 shares

02

Global Trade & Security in a Trump World

In the Tyranny Today podcast, Tomasz from Amvest Capital discusses global trade, security, and the potential outcomes of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

7 shares

03

Modernizing Risk Management in Finance

Martim Rocha and Luis Jesus from SAS discuss on how financial institutions can use AI, cloud, and integration to improve risk management in a volatile market.

6 shares

04

Scaling AI Systems Like OpenAI

The Data Science at Home podcast explores how top AI companies like OpenAI scale their systems to handle millions of requests per minute.

6 shares

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Global FX Strategy Update

The Global FX Strategy team at JPMorgan Chase discusses key market events and previews the upcoming week's economic calendar.

5 shares

X / Twitter

Posts from quant researchers on X.

10 items

Quantitative5

01

Statistical Arbitrage Review

The article reviews research on statistical arbitrage in various financial markets like equities, fixed income, and commodities.

5 shares

02

Human Intuition in ML

The article emphasizes the role of human intuition in the successful application of machine learning, outlining nine common scenarios.

4 shares

04

Fresh Research on Investing

The article provides a weekly summary of new research in the fields of investing and trading.

1 shares

05

News Sentiment for Stock Returns Prediction

The blog post explores the impact of news sentiment on stock returns, presenting research findings, testing a sentiment-based signal, and providing insights for investors.

1 shares

Miscellaneous5

02

Insider Trades and Stock Alphas

The paper examines a vast dataset of global insider trades, generating a collective signal for each stock using different insider trade indicators.

0 shares

04

Entropy Perspectives

The article discusses the concept of entropy and the various ways it has been defined over the years.

0 shares

05

PostEarnings Drift in Political Presidencies

The study shows a notable difference in post-earnings announcement drift during Republican and Democratic presidencies, suggesting it's due to investors' biased expectations of tax cuts.

0 shares

Reddit

Threads from r/quant, r/algotrading and friends.

10 items

Quantitative5

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