Big Data and Machine Learning in Quantitative Investment

TONY GUIDA is a senior investment manager in quantitative equity at the investment manager of a major UK pension fund in London, where he manages multifactor systematic equity portfolios. During his career, he held such positions as senior consultant for smart beta and risk allocation at EDHEC RISK Scientific Beta and senior research analyst at UNIGESTION. He is a former member of the research and investment committee for Minimum Variance Strategies, where he led the factor investing research group for institutional clients, and a regular speaker at quant conferences. Tony is chair of machineByte ThinkTank EMEA.

• CHAPTER 1 Do Algorithms Dream About Artificial Alphas? 1By Michael KolloCHAPTER 2 Taming Big Data 13By Rado Lipuš and Daryl SmithCHAPTER 3 State of Machine Learning Applications in Investment Management 33By Ekaterina SirotyukCHAPTER 4 Implementing Alternative Data in an Investment Process 51By Vinesh JhaCHAPTER 5 Using Alternative and Big Data to Trade Macro Assets 75By Saeed Amen and Iain ClarkCHAPTER 6 Big Is Beautiful: How Email Receipt Data Can Help Predict Company Sales 95By Giuliano De Rossi, Jakub Kolodziej and Gurvinder BrarCHAPTER 7 Ensemble Learning Applied to Quant Equity: Gradient Boosting in a Multifactor Framework 129By Tony Guida and Guillaume CoqueretCHAPTER 8 A Social Media Analysis of Corporate Culture 149By Andy MonizCHAPTER 9 Machine Learning and Event Detection for Trading Energy Futures 169By Peter Hafez and Francesco LautiziCHAPTER 10 Natural Language Processing of Financial News 185By M. Berkan Sesen, Yazann Romahi and Victor LiCHAPTER 11 Support Vector Machine-Based Global Tactical Asset Allocation 211By Joel GugliettaCHAPTER 12 Reinforcement Learning in Finance 225By Gordon RitterCHAPTER 13 Deep Learning in Finance: Prediction of Stock Returns with Long Short-Term Memory Networks 251By Miquel N. Alonso, Gilberto Batres-Estrada and Aymeric MoulinBiography 279