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NUS Quantitative Finance Joint Seminar Series (Webinar)

Date: 27 August 2021
Time: 9.00pm - 10.00pm
Speaker: Prof. Bryan Kelly
Venue: Online Webinar

NUS Quantitative Finance Joint Seminar Series (Webinar)

This webinar is jointly organised by Risk Management Institute and Centre for Quantitative Finance

Programme

Title: Projects in Financial Machine Learning 

Prof. Bryan Kelly (Yale School of Management)

Abstract: The presentation gives an overview of financial machine learning models and applications including ML factor models, textual analysis, and image analysis based on the papers: "Characteristics are Covariances," "Instrumented Principal Components Analysis," "Autoencoder Asset Pricing Models," "The Structure of Economic News," "Predicting Returns With Text Data," "Principal Portfolios," and "Re-imagining Price Trends."

About the Speaker

Bryan Kelly is Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management, a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Associate Director of SOM’s International Center for Finance, and is the head of machine learning at AQR Capital Management. Professor Kelly’s primary research fields are asset pricing and financial econometrics. He is interested in issues related to financial machine learning; volatility, tail risk, and correlation modeling in financial markets; banking sector systemic risk; financial intermediation; and financial networks.  He has served as co-editor of the Journal of Financial Econometrics and associate editor of Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial Economics. Before joining Yale, Kelly was a tenured professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.  He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from University of Chicago, a master’s degree in economics from University of California San Diego, and a PhD in finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Kelly worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley prior to his PhD.

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