AI in Hedge Funds and Asset Management - Michael Watson
Send us a textI had a blast taking to Michael Watson who is the founder and CEO of Hedgineer. "AI is the future. But not everyone is prepared for it. To effectively integrate AI into a company, it needs an organized, thorough, and secure inventory of data. Without one, every AI implementation remains incomplete because it only has access to a subset of the relevant information it needs.Most hedge funds are built on disjointed networks of research portals, order management systems, and datasets. The ones that don't consolidate them will run the risk of falling behind the AI curve."Michael's LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldavidwatson/Hedgineer:https://www.hedgineer.io/https://www.youtube.com/@hedgineerhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hedgineer-podcast/id1674929284https://open.spotify.com/show/0Aq6pxdUONA4aJPntsvqf2https://www.linkedin.com/company/hedgineer-io/Video Version:https://youtu.be/2hyfMMl1pGgOVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.comSupport the show
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Physicist to Quant and AI - Igor Halperin
Send us a textLearn about financial AI expert, Igor Halperin's journey from the Soviet Union to physics and finally quantitative finance in the US. A great discussion on why many physists choose to go into quantitative finance, the positive and negative impacts of LLMs, and some perspectives on careers.Igor Halperin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/igor-halperin-092175a/YouTube Version:https://youtu.be/J7O6Scnc5NAIgor's Textbook:https://amzn.to/42IGAGhOVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.comSupport the show
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Alpha Engineer - Jeff Ryan
Send us a textJeff Ryan is an alpha engineer with an unconventional background. He is also the co-founder of QUANTkiosk and loves solving problems. Some great discussion on programming languages, structuring data, the quant community, and why R programming is so useful.YouTube Version:https://youtu.be/U0qf-sRzQZkQUANTkioskhttp://www.quantkiosk.comJeff Ryanhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyaryan/OVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.comSupport the show
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The Current State of AI in Finance and Business
Send us a textAI has many use cases and is a very broad area. AI has been used in finance since the rise of computers and the internet through automated systems. From trading to originating loans, AI is not new to finance. As LLMs have become the main focus over the last few years, there are a lot of wild predictions and fear of missing out. While LLMs and great at simple tasks and those with low risk, they are not actually thinking and need a lot of engineering around them to make them useful. They are also great at taking unstructured text data and images and turning them into structured data for more traditional methods such as math, logic, programming, statistics, and machine learning. I see there being a big lift in automating common tasks however the core of a business and where it has a competitive edge will continue to be done through non-AI methods. Don't get me wrong, implementing AI as a cost saving approach to common tasks can be an edge but it shouldn't be the main focus of your business.OVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.comSupport the show
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NanoConda Founder - Roman Bansal
Send us a textRoman Bansal is the founder of NanoConda. We discuss growing up in Russia, the joy of reading books, and how NanoConda can help you set up software, API, hardware, and colocation for HFT (high frequency trading) for smaller firms. We also discuss why Dallas, Texas is growing in the quant space as many firms are locating here.NanoCondahttps://nanoconda.com/Roman Bansalhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/romanbansal/OVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.comSupport the show
The Talking Tuesdays Podcast is all about quantitative topics but mainly focused around quantitative finance, data science, machine learning, career development, and technical topics. Join me for some insight from a risk management professional on how the industry works and how to break in!
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