London Society Meeting: Statistical Learning for Financial Markets
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Venue
Fitch Ratings, 30 North Colonnade, London, E14 5GN
Please note: This event is live, in-person only
Abstract
Join Joerg Kienitz and Saeed Amen at our first London Society as they discuss the statistical learning for financial markets in detail.
Joerg Kienitz will discuss how statistical learning techniques can be applied to the pricing/calibration and hedging. To this end he shortly reviews some methods and outlines a method based on Gaussian Mixture models which is versatile to work with exotic Bermudan payoffs, multiple dimensions, classic and generative models and leading to a proxy hedging approach. Many illustrative examples are shown.
Saeed Amen will discuss how machine learning can be used to forecast inflation in conjunction with alternative data, and how it differs from more traditional approaches. He will also present some current inflation forecasts for major economies, and what is driving these forecasts.
This event can earn you up to 2 CPD credits.
Speaker Bio
Jörg Kienitz is a partner at Quaternion, Acadia’s Quant Services division. He owns the finciraptor.de website - an educational platform for Quantitative Finance and Machine Learning. Jörg consults on the development, implementation, and validation of quantitative models. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wuppertal and an Adjunct Associate Professor at AIFMRM at the University of Cape Town. He regularly addresses major conferences, including Quant Minds, RISK or the WBS Quant Conference series. Jörg has authored four books, Monte Carlo Frameworks (with Daniel J. Duffy), Financial Modelling (with Daniel Wetterau), and Interest Rate Derivatives Explained I and II (with Peter Caspers). He also co-authored many peer reviewed research articles that appeared in leading journals like Quantitative Finance, RISK or Mathematics in Industry.
Saeed Amen is the co-founder of Turnleaf Analytics and the founder of Cuemacro. Over the past fifteen years, Saeed Amen has developed systematic trading strategies at major investment banks including Lehman Brothers and Nomura. He is also the author of Trading Thalesians: What the ancient world can teach us about trading today (Palgrave Macmillan) and is the coauthor of The Book of Alternative Data (Wiley). Turnleaf Analytics generates forecasts for inflation using machine learning and alternative data. He has developed many Python libraries including finmarketpy and tcapy for transaction cost analysis. Clients have included major quant funds and data companies such as Bloomberg. He has presented his work at many conferences and institutions which include the ECB, IMF, Bank of England and Federal Reserve Board. He is also a visiting lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and a co-founder of the Thalesians.
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