"Financial Markets in Practice: From Post-Crisis Intermediation to FinTechs delivers an overview of risk transformations operated by the financial industries from the perspective of quantitative finance. It gives a pedagogical and comprehensive understanding of the structure of the financial...

This paper provides a review on machine learning methods applied to the asset management discipline. Firstly, we describe the theoretical background of both machine learning and finance that will be needed to understand the reviewed methods. Next, the main datasets and sources of data are...

Successful investment strategies are specific implementations of general theories. An investment strategy that lacks a theoretical justification is likely to be false. Hence, an asset manager should concentrate her efforts on developing a theory, rather than on back-testing potential trading...

Successful investment strategies are specific implementations of general theories. An investment strategy that lacks a theoretical justification is likely to be false. Hence, an asset manager should concentrate her efforts on developing a theory rather than on backtesting potential trading...

"The rise of artificial intelligence is being termed as the fourth industrial revolution. AI is no longer just a technology, it is the technology around which business models are being shaped. Banks, asset management, investment management, and financial services firms are eager to use AI and...