Articles by Faye Kilburn
Quant funds look to AI to master correlations
Machine learning shows promise in grouping assets better, predicting regime shifts
Intercept: AQR’s risk-catching machine
CRO Mike Patchen has helped build a system to identify risks before they grow or spread
Credit Suisse uses neural nets to call minute-ahead forex
Bank encases AI in ‘control framework’ to curb risk and will stick to micro timeframe for now
BlackRock, State Street, AB are making AI work in risk
Risk USA: Fund managers are using new technology to measure liquidity risk and spot their own errors
Morgan Stanley, Wells not sold on AI for credit scoring
Risk USA: Lenders warn on AI model risks and use of non-traditional data
Value: ‘Trade of the decade,’ says QMA
Quant firm predicts big revival for out-of-favour strategy
Machines can save 20% on routing orders, UBS says
Machine learning is navigating the labyrinth of venues, figuring out how best to land the trade
How Virtu trained its intelligent algos
Firm has sought to meld traders’ instincts with insights from ‘massive scale’ data
Allianz Global Investors adopts NLP signals in equities
Move to tackle unstructured data starts with sell-side analyst reports
Neuberger sidesteps option gap risk using AI and credit card data
Random-forest algorithm run on retail transaction data forewarns of earning shocks
Pimco deploys neural net model in agency bonds
Old models for $7 trillion mortgage market overstate risk in some cases, asset manager says
Goldman improves execution ‘by 50%’ with new algos
Bank uses neural networks and other AI tools to cut slippage in stock trading
QMA’s Dyson: AI a ‘wonderful marketing concept’
Quant firm sceptical about using artificial intelligence to seek out tradable strategies
Quant Lipton pans Facebook’s Libra
Former Bank of America exec sees more potential in rival projects, such as utility settlement coin
AllianceBernstein uses AI to sidestep ‘growth trap’
Random forest model aims to sort success stories like Amazon and Netflix from fast-growth losers
PanAgora uses NLP to cut through Chinese cyber speak
Fund builds Mandarin-reading algo to gauge sentiment of retail investors
Can robots learn to manage risk?
Will machine learning transform risk management or give birth to a new breed of model risk? Probably both
How AI could tear up risk modelling canon
BlackRock, MSCI, LFIS among firms looking to replace traditional, linear risk models
Cleaning noisy data ‘almost 70%’ of machine learning labour
Quants flag signal-to-noise ratio as key to reducing overfitting risk
Stock-pickers take note: the quants are coming
Quant funds are turning their hand to fundamental investing
Stick to core skills or risk data overload, says Goldman quant
Data-as-a-service chief says asset managers risk being swamped by new types of information
Quants blame crowding and concentration for bleak 2018
Funds are still struggling to explain why so many of them did so badly last year
Systematic manager puts up guardrails for AI
Boston-based Acadian aims to limit risks from complex, machine learning algorithms
Fund houses get picky over where to use machine learning
Buy-siders limit usage of deep learning techniques due to haziness over their inner workings