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By Irene Aldridge This article first came out on Huffington Post: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/59dcff8de4b0b8751b878b3d Understanding the capabilities and disruptive threats of big data is a must for all sophisticated finance professionals today. This article considers the development and current state of Big Data Finance, as it relates to innovation in investment management, intermediation (broking), insurance, risk management, and most other aspects of Finance. Big Data Finance is a revolution as well as an evolution that has come prominence several decades. Chartists and other technical analysts since at least the 1920s have utilized market data to derive upcoming patterns of prices. Perhaps the first formal breakthrough in BigRead More →

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Only investors that harness Big Data and track risks in real-time survive, an interview with Irene Aldridge. By PlanetCompliance, July 28, 2017 Everything changes. Financial Services. Markets. Risk. Technology and innovation transform an entire industry and if you want to survive, you need to change, too. In order to change though, a profound understanding of the new technologies is necessary. PlanetCompliance spoke to Irene Aldridge, the author of the bestseller “Real-Time Risk” about what investors and finance professionals need to know about Fintech and the way Big Data is transforming the world we live in. There are without doubt not enough women in finance. Not in traditional banking,Read More →

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This article first appeared in the European Financial Review, http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=17446 By Irene Aldridge With all the changes happening to the markets the past several years, author Irene Aldridge discusses how technology has significantly shaped the execution quality for portfolio managers. The article emphasises the realities of a data-driven industry wherein better information means better success.   Investment managers are increasingly concerned about the quality of their execution. Indeed, how you execute the orders in today’s markets may make or break investment profitability. Changes to the markets over the past several years place execution quality at the top the priority list for investment managers. Most ofRead More →

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Real-Time Risk: Why we all need to study Big Data By PlanetCompliance, July 28, 2017 Everything changes. Financial Services. Markets. Risk. Technology and innovation transform an entire industry and if you want to survive, you need to change, too. In order to change though, a profound understanding of the new technologies is necessary. PlanetCompliance spoke to Irene Aldridge, the author of the bestseller “Real-Time Risk” about what investors and finance professionals need to know about Fintech and the way Big Data is transforming the world we live in. There are without doubt not enough women in finance. Not in traditional banking, nor in Fintech. However,Read More →

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By Irene Aldridge Adapted from Aldridge, Krawciw, Real-Time Risk: What Investors Should Know About Fintech, High-Frequency Trading and Flash Crashes (Wiley, 2017) Foreign exchange market participants are increasingly concerned about the quality of their execution. Gone are the days of laid-back forex execution – the compensation of today’s forex managers is increasingly tied to their performance. Indeed, how you execute the orders in today’s markets may make or break investment profitability. Changes to the markets over the past several years, place execution quality at the top the priority list for investment managers. Most of the changes in the markets are directly related to computing powerRead More →

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By Irene Aldridge Big Data techniques transform the landscape of portfolio management analytics. The classic portfolio allocation framework developed by Markowitz (1952, 1959) suggests that portfolio returns can be dramatically improved if investors distribute their holdings across many different assets and, potentially, asset classes. Markowitz portfolio allocation theory suggests that investors benefit from distributing their nest eggs among different investment baskets. Should one basket fall and the eggs contained within break, the other baskets will be unharmed. The key factors commonly considered in the Markowitz framework are the historical returns of the prospective portfolio constituents, which in turn allow for the measurement of historical varianceRead More →

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By Irene Aldridge Adapted from Real-Time Risk: What Investors Should Know About Fintech, High-Frequency Trading and Flash Crashes, by Irene Aldridge and Steve Krawciw (Wiley, 2017)   Recently, a frenzy to delay orders consumed exchanges. First came IEX, whose innovation was to delay all orders by 350 microseconds. Following IEX market share gains, reported here, many venues are competing to provide a similar offering to traders. This article looks at the mechanics of the delay and how it really helps trading venues gain market share, and at whose expense. In a nutshell, execution delay can be very risky and costly to investors. In all fairness,Read More →