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ESG Asset Owners Summit (Washington D.C.): The Rise & Status of Sustainable Investing

Renaissance Washington DC Downtown Hotel 999 Ninth St, Washington, D.C., DC, United States

CFA Society Washington, DC invites you to join us at this informative and thought-provoking event to hear from top influencers, experienced investors, academics and researchers who are leading the charge on environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing trends.

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ESG Integration in Fixed Income: How Credit Analysis of Risk and Opportunities is Evolving

The University Club 1 W 54th St, New York, NY, United States

Overview Sponsored by Fordham University The event is intended to shine a spotlight on the drivers and current status of ESG integration in fixed income, focus on developments at the largest credit rating agencies with regard to ESG integration in the assessment of creditworthiness and explore how investment management firms are considering [...]

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The Quant Conference 2019

Marriot Marquis 1535 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

The rise of big data, application of machine learning and other technological developments in recent years have transformed the quantitative finance industry. The Quant Conference’s speaker roster of industry leaders provides insights from those pioneering these changes. Topics discussed on the day include: "How quantitative research differs in the industry and academia", "Practical application of ML & AL for systematic strategies", "Legends on how it all started" and many more.

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Women in Alternative Investments Conference

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

Overview The Gabelli School of Business, CAIA, and 100 Women in Finance invite women working or interested in asset management, private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, real assets, or other alternative investments to join us for an evening of substantive conversation on the opportunities, challenges, and strategies for success for women in alternative [...]

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Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz book lecture moderated by Bruce Greenwald

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

Overview Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz grew up during the golden age of capitalism in Gary, Indiana, a steel town whose fortunes rose and fell with the waves of industrialization and deindustrialization. But even during Stiglitz’s childhood, life didn’t seem so golden. He saw inequality, racial discrimination, and labor strife all around, [...]

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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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