Machine Learning and Data Sciences for Financial Markets: A Guide to Contemporary Practices [Hardcover]

Learn how cutting-edge AI and data science techniques are integrated in financial markets from leading experts in the industry.Written by more than sixty experts in the area, this book reviews cutting-edge practices in machine learning for financial markets, and explores connections with data science and more traditional approaches. This is an invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students in financial engineering, as well as practitioners in the sector.Written by more than sixty experts in the area, this book reviews cutting-edge practices in machine learning for financial markets, and explores connections with data science and more traditional approaches. This is an invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students in financial engineering, as well as practitioners in the sector.Leveraging the research efforts of more than sixty experts in the area, this book reviews cutting-edge practices in machine learning for financial markets. Instead of seeing machine learning as a new field, the authors explore the connection between knowledge developed by quantitative finance over the past forty years and techniques generated by the current revolution driven by data sciences and artificial intelligence. The text is structured around three main areas: 'Interactions with investors and asset owners,' which covers robo-advisors and price formation; 'Risk intermediation,' which discusses derivative hedging, portfolio construction, and machine learning for dynamic optimization; and 'Connections with the real economy,' which explores nowcasting, alternative data, and ethics of algorithms. Accessible to a wide audience, this invaluable resource will allow practitioners to include machine learning driven techniques in their day-to-day quantitative practices, while students will build intuition and come to appreciate the technical tools and motivation for the theory.Interacting with Investors and Asset Owners: Part I. Robo-advisors and Automated Recommendation: 1.l‘