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Interpreting Alternative Data in Novel Ways Using AI

Mar 7, 2019 3:56:18 PM

How smart businesses utilize continuously learning AI systems to automate analytical workflows and extract hidden knowledge in proprietary data to make predictions about the real world that impacts financial markets.

Alternative data, which was once conceptually new and novel, has become commoditized as every institutional investor utilizes the same types of datasets in their investment calculus. Alternative datasets were once very expensive and difficult to obtain but an explosion in alternative data vendors has exerted pricing pressure and increased accessibility. The widespread adoption of alternative data has consequently left institutions scrambling to find new ways of extracting alpha.

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Anja Asato

Anja Asato
Anja is currently the Executive Assistant at Accrete. With a background in public relations, she brings diverse communications experience. She is a graduate of Fordham University with a BA in Communications and Sociology.
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