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Introduction to Data Science and Python for Finance

CFA Society New York 1540 Broadway, New York City, NY, United States

The amount of data available to organizations and individuals is unprecedented. Financial services sectors, including securities & investment services and banking, have the most digital data stored per firm on average. As a result

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What’s In the News? Using Textual Data To Forecast Financial Returns

Voya 230 Park Ave, New York, NY, United States

From SQA—Prof. Mamaysky will discuss two new papers which apply natural language processing (NLP) techniques to textual data to forecast financial returns. Specifically, he and his co-authors developed a classification methodology for the context and content of textual data. In a paper with Charles Calomiris, he combined unusualness (entropy) of work flow with sentiment and frequency in central bank communications to forecast currency returns. In a brand new paper with Paul Glasserman, he applies NLP techniques to news articles to forecast stock returns in the US.

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ASFIP Asset Owner Series Roundtable

103 West 103 West Paces Ferry Rd, Atlanta, GA, United States

Join ASFIP for a roundtable event that is designed to be of interest to all investment professionals, especially those in the Institutional Investment community.

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Mario Gabelli and Leon Cooperman at Fordham

Fordham University’s McNally Amphitheater 140 West 62nd Street, New York, NY, United States

Overview The Gabelli Center for Global Security Analysis presents an evening with Mario Gabelli, chairman and CEO of Gamco Investors Inc., and Leon Cooperman, chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors. Mario Gabelli will engage in a dynamic conversation with his colleague and friend of over 50 years, Lee Cooperman. Following graduation, Lee and [...]

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Introduction to Data Science and Python for Finance

CFA Society New York 1540 Broadway, New York City, NY, United States

The amount of data available to organizations and individuals is unprecedented. Financial services sectors, including securities & investment services and banking, have the most digital data stored per firm on average.

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Machine Learning and AI for Financial Professionals

CFA Society New York 1540 Broadway, New York City, NY, United States

Data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming more widely used in the investment industry to augment traditional investment decision making.

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How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers by Mihir Desai

Fordham University’s McNally Amphitheater 140 West 62nd Street, New York, NY, United States

If you’re not a numbers person, then finance can be intimidating and easy to ignore. But if you want to advance in your career, you’ll need to make smart financial decisions and develop the confidence to clearly communicate those decisions to others.

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Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian by James Grant

Fordham University’s McNally Amphitheater 140 West 62nd Street, New York, NY, United States

During the upheavals of 2007–2009, the Federal Reserve chairman had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill and author of Lombard Street, the still-canonical guide to stopping a run on the banks, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that―decades later―inspired the radical responses to the world’s worst financial crises.

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Distressed Debt Conference

Fordham University’s McNally Amphitheater 140 West 62nd Street, New York, NY, United States

The United States is in the longest economic recovery in its history. However, persistent and significant macro risks, including a trade war with China and structural and fundamental issues within credit markets are setting up a cycle that will inevitably present a large and attractive distressed credit opportunity. This half-day conference is geared towards industry professionals who want to learn about one of the last true value investing asset classes – distressed debt.

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A Conversation with Stacey Cunningham: The First Female President of the NYSE

Fordham University’s McNally Amphitheater 140 West 62nd Street, New York, NY, United States

About Keynote Speaker Stacey Cunningham is the president of the NYSE Group, which includes the New York Stock Exchange and a diverse range of equity and equity options exchanges, all wholly owned subsidiaries of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE). She is the 67th president and the first woman to lead the NYSE Group in [...]

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Investor Forum 2019: Driving Actionable Analytics

Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business 55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Overview Data standards are rapidly being recognized as the critical driver in new markets and new types of tools. Blockchain and artificial intelligence applications need clean, consistent, automated data to enable deployment. And municipal investors and analysts are waking to the realization that they can, and should, have granular, actionable financials from state [...]

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Financial Reporting and Analysis, Other Industry Events

‘In Money We Trust?’ Film Screening and Conversation with Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames

Fordham University’s McNally Amphitheater 140 West 62nd Street, New York, NY, United States

In Money We Trust? is an illuminating one-hour public television documentary that answers the question, “what is money?” In a narrative that begins in ancient times and takes us to the present day, the film explains how, 2,500 years ago, the invention of money provided a shared measure of value that facilitated trade and cooperation between strangers.

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