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AI in the Asset Management Industry
In the Financial industry, Artificial Intelligence has been one of the sophisticated techniques used by early adopters to manage multiple assets. Those early adopters are Quantitative Hedge Funds, around since the 80s and managing today an estimated USD 940 billion. After presenting the main trends in the Asset Management industry, I will describe the set-up of a Quantitative Hedge Fund as well as some of the problems that AI helps solving in the industry.
Speaker
Antoine Pichot
Quantitative Researcher @Systematica Investments
Antoine Pichot joined Systematica Investment in Geneva, an $8bn hedge fund, in 2015 as Quantitative Researcher. He is building algorithms to trade automatically in the stock market. Prior to Systematica, Antoine was an Executive Director for Goldman Sachs in London for six years. Antoine also...
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Location
Mountbatten, 6th flr.
Track
The Practice & Frontiers of AI
Topics
Artificial IntelligenceShare
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