In May, J.P. Morgan’s quantitative investing and derivatives strategy team, issued the most comprehensive report ever on big data and machine learning in financial services.
Titled, ‘Big Data and AI Strategies’ and subheaded, ‘Machine Learning and Alternative Data Approach to Investing’, the report says that machine learning will become crucial to the future functioning of markets. Analysts, portfolio managers, traders and chief investment officers all need to become familiar with machine learning techniques. If they don’t they’ll be left behind: traditional data sources like quarterly earnings and GDP figures will become increasingly irrelevant as managers using newer datasets and methods will be able to predict them in advance and to trade ahead of their release.
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WHY IT MATTERS: AI will disrupt industries that had been left mostly alone by the digital Internet revolution: Finance, Accounting, Law, Medecine, etc. They are all industries that rely on visual or text analysis but require very simple processing to perform the most routine back office tasks. This report presents the impact in very detailed fashion and this summary is useful because it applies to many industries, if you adjust the terminology. It highlights one key element: learn to program and to analyze data because these are the jobs of the (near) future. For those crazy enough to read the 280 pages, here is the link: http://valuesimplex.com/articles/JPM.pdf
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