by awatson | Oct 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Videos Articles Looking through the lens of big data for alpha As the largest asset manager in the world, BlackRock has been one of the pioneers over the past decade in exploring the potential of big data, and in particular, alternative data sources, for...
by awatson | Oct 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Videos Articles Humans and data: where will they go next? In a moment where investors have just begun to scratch the surface of big data and machine learning, the new and upcoming opportunities that can come from data science and its tools appear to be...
by awatson | Oct 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Videos Articles How is the fund due diligence process affected by the current ‘data frenzy’ in the investment landscape? Over the past two years, 90% of all the data ever generated in history, has been created. The emergence of these hoards of big data, has...
by awatson | Oct 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
Videos Articles How can humans, machines and data work together in investing? A decade ago the impact of passive investing was just beginning to be felt. It is now an unavoidable component of investors’ toolkits. Echoing passive’s exceptional growth, many...
by awatson | Oct 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
Videos Articles Big Data overload: How to separate good data from bad data? The size of the datasets being created today is enormous, so new and sophisticated tools are necessary to analyse, measure and put this data to work. The world generates some 2.5...
by awatson | Oct 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
Videos Articles What is big data and how is it reshaping the landscape of investing? From personalised recommendations on Netflix to predicting how diseases will evolve over the next century and which drugs will be best placed to tackle them, we are currently...
