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48 results for financial professionals

The Chain-of-Decision approach improves forecasting of financial professionals' trading decisions.

problem Challenges in forecasting professionals' behaviors, especially in trading decisions.
method Integrates an opinion-generator-in-the-loop to provide subjective analysis based on news items.
result Promising improvements in the proposed tasks' performance.

FinRobot opens-source AI for financial tasks, breaking down complex problems.

problem Barriers to AI adoption in finance due to proprietary data and specialized knowledge.
method Develops open-source AI agent platform with four layers: Financial AI Agents, LLM Algorithms, LLMOps/DataOps, and Foundation Models.
result FinRobot democratizes AI access for financial analysis.

EDINET-Bench evaluates LLMs on complex financial tasks using Japanese financial statements.

problem Challenges in evaluating LLMs on financial tasks due to specialized expertise and scarce benchmarks.
method Developed EDINET-Bench, an open-source Japanese financial benchmark for LLMs on tasks like fraud detection and earnings forecasting.
result State-of-the-art LLMs perform only marginally better than logistic regression in financial tasks, highlighting the need for more realistic benchmarks.

Peer review is the foundation of scientific publication, and the task of reviewing has long been seen as a cornerstone of professional service. However, the massive growth in the field of machine learning has put this community benefit under stress, threatening both the sustainability of an effective review process and…

2018-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

AI enhances financial services but humans are irreplaceable for empathy, presence, and ethics.

problem AI's limitations in financial services, especially with small datasets and human judgment.
method EPOCH framework highlighting five irreplaceable human capabilities: Empathy, Presence, Opinion, Creativity, and Hope.
result Humans are essential for trust, innovation, and consumer experience in financial services.

The semantic map calibrates uncertainty from language model probabilities.

problem Uncertainty in language model probabilities for professional decisions.
method Prespecified semantic map linking probabilities of verbal responses to probabilities of declared states.
result Language-derived probabilities outperform printed numerical probabilities and recover valid uncertainty coverage.

LLMs outperform human analysts in predicting earnings direction.

problem Evaluating financial statements without narrative or industry-specific information.
method Trained GPT4 on standardized, anonymous financial statements and instructed to predict earnings direction.
result LLMs predict earnings directionally with accuracy comparable to narrowly trained ML models.

New attacks inflate earnings while reducing fraud scores, potentially millions at stake.

problem Manipulating financial reports to hide distress and gain.
method Maximum Violated Multi-Objective (MVMO) attacks that adapt search direction.
result Inflation of earnings by 100-200% while reducing fraud scores by 15% in 50% of cases.

InvestLM is a financial domain LLM tuned on LLaMA-65B for investment advice.

problem Improving financial text understanding and advice generation for investment.
method Curated financial instruction dataset, LLaMA-65B, less-is-more-for-alignment approach.
result InvestLM provides comparable responses to state-of-the-art commercial models.

Deep RL outperforms traditional MVO in optimal portfolio allocation.

problem Optimizing portfolio allocation to balance returns and risk.
method Training a DRL agent on historical market data to optimize portfolio allocation, comparing against MVO.
result DRL agent outperforms MVO in various metrics including Sharpe ratio, maximum drawdowns, and absolute returns.

The professional services sector is at a turning point, with some industries showing growth opportunities.

problem Identifying growth opportunities in the professional services sector after decades of growth.
method A simple framework applied to the US economic context to diagnose growth opportunities.
result The professional services sector is expected to stall at a national level, but some industries still offer growth opportunities.

New simulation model predicts financial market dynamics with high accuracy.

problem Extreme difficulty in financial market projections due to human behavioural complexity.
method Agent-based modeling with a hierarchical knowledge architecture to simulate diverse human groups.
result Simulator achieves 13.29% deviation in crisis scenarios and lower mean square error under normal conditions.

The goal of this article is to inspire data scientists to participate in the debate on the impact that their professional work has on society, and to become active in public debates on the digital world as data science professionals. How do ethical principles (e.g., fairness, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence) …

2019-01-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Italy and the Eurozone are heading in the year 2012 into a financial depression of unprecedented magnitude, with a forthcoming multitude of often contradictory public economic and financial stability emergency interventions whose ultimate endogenous and exogenous effects on public and private health spending and on the…

2012-07-26abs ↗pdf ↗

This note examines financial distributions to competing teams at the end of the most famous multiple stage professional (male) bicyclist race, TOUR DE FRANCE. A rank-size law (RSL) is calculated for the team financial gains. The RSL is found to be hyperbolic with a surprisingly simple decay exponent (about equal to -1)…

2019-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Multimodal analysis assesses job interview performance and provides feedback.

problem Assessing candidate performance in interviews for professional roles.
method Multimodal analytical framework using video, audio, and text data.
result The proposed methodology achieved promising results in predicting behavioral cues.

This paper was presented and written for two seminars: a national UK University Risk Conference and a Risk Management industry workshop. The target audience is therefore a cross section of Academics and industry professionals. The current ongoing global credit crunch has highlighted the importance of risk measurement i…

2009-04-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Negative screening is one method to avoid interactions with inappropriate entities. For example, financial institutions keep investment exclusion lists of inappropriate firms that have environmental, social, and government (ESG) problems. They create their investment exclusion lists by gathering information from variou…

2018-11-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Study examines cryptocurrency impacts on financial indices using advanced risk models.

problem Interdependence between cryptocurrencies and financial indices, focusing on risk spillover.
method Hybrid approach integrating GARCH, EVT, and copula functions for risk measures.
result eGARCH-EVT-Copula model outperforms conventional methods in risk estimation.

FinMem enhances LLM trading agents with layered memory and character design.

problem Developing purpose-driven LLM agents for financial decision-making.
method Integrates layered memory and character design modules into an LLM framework.
result Significantly enhanced trading performance in financial markets.

AI helps simplify complex ship finance processes.

problem Complexity in ship finance due to data and regulatory requirements.
method Integrates large language models for document comprehension, information extraction, and workflow automation.
result AI-assisted systems can support maritime finance professionals in managing complex information and reporting requirements.

Wearable devices have the potential to enhance sports performance, yet they are not fulfilling this promise. Our previous studies with 6 professional tennis coaches and 20 players indicate that this could be due the lack of psychological or mental state feedback, which the coaches claim to provide. Towards this end, we…

2018-03-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Building machine translation (MT) test sets is a relatively expensive task. As MT becomes increasingly desired for more and more language pairs and more and more domains, it becomes necessary to build test sets for each case. In this paper, we investigate using Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to make MT test sets chea…

2014-10-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on women entrepreneurs' access to finance in France.

problem Inequalities in accessing external finance for women entrepreneurs in France.
method Quantitative approach using data from a representative sample of women entrepreneurs.
result Founder status affects access to external finance; increases success in fundraising but reduces bank finance.

The modelling of financial markets presents a problem which is both theoretically challenging and practically important. The theoretical aspects concern the issue of market efficiency which may even have political implications \cite{Cuthbertson}, whilst the practical side of the problem has clear relevance to portfolio…

1998-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

The study compares M6 competitors' performance to industry benchmarks and discusses incentives for investment managers.

problem Investors seek to understand the performance and skill of M6 competitors beyond the competition's metrics.
method Comparative analysis using financial metrics, factor models, and new strategies.
result Most competitors do not generate significant out-performance compared to industry benchmarks, but some show skill in recent performance.

DeepScalper uses RL to capture intraday trading opportunities, balancing risk and profit.

problem Capturing fleeting intraday trading opportunities in high-frequency markets.
method Dueling Q-network, reward function with hindsight bonus, encoder-decoder architecture, risk-aware auxiliary task.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in financial criteria.

In this article, I will present a paradox whose purpose is to draw your attention to an important topic in finance, concerning the non-independence of the financial returns (non-ergodic hypothesis). In this paradox, we have two people sitting at a table separated by a black sheet so that they cannot see each other and …

2019-03-05abs ↗pdf ↗