Marcos Lopez de Prado testifies before U.S. Congress

Marcos Lopez de Prado

Famed quantitative financial mathematician Marcos Lopez de Prado, who was recently featured as Master of the Robots by Bloomberg, testified today (6 December 2019) before the U.S. Congress, together with four other panelists.

The topic for the panel, organized by the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, was Robots on Wall Street: The Impact of AI on Capital Markets and Jobs in the Financial Services Industry. The five panelists who testified are:

Charlton McIlwain, Vice Provost for Faculty Engagement and Development and Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. Marcos Lopez de Prado, Professor of

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December 6th, 2019 | Category: Essays | Comments are closed

Jim Simons: The man who solved the market

[Note: Simons died 10 May 2024 at the age of 86. See this New York Times report for a nice synopsis of his life and work.]

Gregory Zuckerman, author of The Greatest Trade Ever, has published a new book highlighting the life and work of Jim Simons, who, at the age of 40, walked away from a very successful career as a research mathematician and cryptologist to try his hand at the financial markets, and ultimately revolutionized the field. Zuckerman’s new book is titled The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution.

Upbringing and academic

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December 3rd, 2019 | Category: Essays | Comments are closed