Deleveraging and newly imposed regulatory restrictions have hindered traditional bank lenders activity, and in turn restricted the capital available to many segments of the US and global economies. This has created a tremendous opportunity for alternative lenders to step in to fill the void.
The 2017 crypto boom brought often overstated and sometimes impossible claims of institutional investment and adoption by 2018. Custody issues, liquidity, regulatory uncertainty, bad actors, security and importantly, a 75% price decline all slowed the pace of institutional adoption.
Corporate and Public Pension Underfunding Research Summit will feature a high-level discussion on the implications of current market conditions and within this context, analyze trends in best practices in investment strategy, risk management and market engagement.
Cyber security has become more important in today’s more connected world. At this event, attendees will learn what critical issues threaten financial firm and how to address them, plus gain an extensive understanding of the wide range of existing threats within the growing global financial industry.
Less developed economies are said to be the world’s primary source of growth, but there’s no denying they are also sites of profound risk in this peculiar moment. Whether they seek to expose or insulate their portfolios, attendees at our inaugural Tangible Opportunities event will leave prepared to take informed action across a range of countries and capital structures.
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.
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 [...]
Join us for this complimentary member event, where CFA Society New York facilitates introductions with members of common interests. Learn just how vital CFA Society New York’s Volunteer Groups are to the CFANY community, and ways in which your involvement can benefit both your professional career, and the Society as a whole.
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.
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 [...]
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, [...]
As investment cap rates are hovering around record lows in the urban cores, especially in the cities along the coasts, the timing of the Opportunity Zone program—designed to encourage investments in often overlooked areas and “flyover cities”—could not have been more appropriate. Since its passage in late 2017, the program has received significant attention from investors, developers, money managers, city officials and urban planners nationwide.
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
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.
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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