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48 results for investment research

LIM enhances investment performance and efficiency at scale.

problem Diminishing returns and rising labor/time costs in traditional quantitative investment research.
method End-to-end learning and universal modeling to create a global patterns foundation model.
result Optimized performance for specific tasks through transfer learning of global patterns.

The study shows interest rates impact investment and funding negatively but positively on dividend decisions.

problem The effect of interest rates on financial decisions like investment, funding, and dividend.
method Correlation coefficient analysis and descriptive methods.
result Interest rates have a negatively insignificant effect on investment and funding decisions, but positively moderate effect on dividend decisions.

A successful response to climate change needs vast investments in low-carbon research, energy, and sustainable development. Governments can drive research, provide environmental regulation, and accelerate global development, but the necessary low-carbon investments of 2-3% GDP have yet to materialise. A new strategy to…

2018-07-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Research tackles investor confusion in ESG rankings, offering tailored strategies.

problem Widespread confusion among investors regarding ESG rankings.
method Developed ESG ensemble strategies, integrated ESG scores into RL model, proposed Double-Mean-Variance model, introduced ESG-adjusted CAPMs.
result Optimized portfolios that balance financial returns and ESG-focused outcomes.

ChatGPT improves financial reasoning, overcoming biases in gold investment.

problem Improving financial reasoning and overcoming biases in investment decisions.
method Applied advanced prompt engineering and semantic news information to enhance LLMs' performance.
result ChatGPT with CoT prompt provides more explainable predictions and higher investment returns.

Quant 4.0 uses AI to automate, explain, and incorporate knowledge in investment.

problem Limitations of deep learning in quant investment.
method Automated AI, Explainable AI, Knowledge-driven AI.
result Improves investment decision-making through automation, interpretability, and prior knowledge integration.

Investment strategies involving cryptocurrencies and VIX INDEX show positive impact in market performance.

problem Investment strategies involving cryptocurrencies and VIX INDEX.
method Parameter estimation on raw data, comparison of two different portfolios, and analysis of different market conditions.
result VIX INDEX positively impacts the investment portfolio of cryptocurrencies in both standard and downward markets.

This paper reviews digital transformation research from 2011-2024, focusing on corporate finance.

problem Lack of systematic review in digital transformation from corporate finance perspective.
method Combines bibliometric and content analysis methods.
result Emerging and rapidly growing focus on digital transformation, particularly in developed countries.

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.

This research tackles backdoor attacks on audio data using a stochastic investment approach.

problem The threat of backdoor attacks on audio data, especially in voice-activated systems.
method A Stochastic investment-based backdoor attack (MarketBack) approach.
result MarketBack can achieve an average attack success rate close to 100% with less than 1% of poisoned data.

LLMs can simulate human investment attitudes based on personality traits.

problem Investigating how LLMs mimic human investment behaviors.
method Simulated investment task using LLM personas with specific Big Five personality profiles.
result LLMs can produce meaningful behavioural differences in investment tasks that align with human traits.

Interpretable AI model boosts investment confidence and profitability.

problem Challenges in financial forecasting and interpretability in decision-making models.
method SHAP-based explainability technique for interpretable AI models.
result Notable enhancement in investor's portfolio value.

The European Union and Eurozone present an inquisitive case of strongly interconnected network with high degree of dependence among nodes. This research focused on investment network of European Union and its major trading partners for specific time period 2001 to 2014. The changing investment patterns within Eurozone …

2017-12-29abs ↗pdf ↗

This research develops a new framework to measure AI investment returns considering both gains and risks.

problem Traditional ROI calculations fail to account for AI's dual impact on risk reduction and new exposures.
method Integrates ISO 42001 and regulatory exposure into a comprehensive financial framework using risk quantification methods.
result Accurate AI investment evaluation requires modeling both productivity gains and risk exposures.

This paper proposes an embedding-based neural network for more accurate investment return prediction.

problem Accurately predicting investment returns requires understanding industry knowledge and news, as well as leveraging relevant theories.
method The approach uses embedding to encode investment IDs into low-dimensional vectors, leveraging dual branches to separate different information, and employs the swish activation function.
result The proposed embedding-based dual branch model outperforms traditional machine learning models like Xgboost, Lightgbm, and Catboost on the Ubiquant Market Prediction dataset.

Investment strategy developed using causal discovery algorithms in equity markets.

problem Lack of actionable causal relationships in large equity markets.
method Causal discovery algorithms applied to equity market data.
result Causal discovery algorithms can uncover actionable causal relationships in equity markets, leading to profitable investment outcomes.

Dual risk models are popular for modeling a venture capital or high tech company, for which the running cost is deterministic and the profits arrive stochastically over time. Most of the existing literature on dual risk models concentrated on the optimal dividend strategies. In this paper, we propose to study the optim…

2015-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

WSB community outperforms investment banks in stock picks.

problem Can WSB's community provide better investment advice than banks?
method Data-driven comparison of WSB and bank recommendations on S&P 500 stocks.
result WSB recommendations outperform banks in some cases and detect top stocks better.

Investment herding can reduce household consumption, a phenomenon called crowding-out effect.

problem Investment herding's impact on household consumption.
method Optimal control theory to model and solve for household investment and consumption decisions.
result Existence of crowding-out effect due to investment herding.

Shai-am simplifies ML for finance, solving code structure and scalability issues.

problem Challenges in integrating ML for investment strategies, including code structure and scalability.
method Integrates a Python framework with modern open-source technologies to manage containerized pipelines and unified interfaces.
result Facilitates collaborative work in quantitative finance by enhancing reusability and readability.

We study a practical optimization problems for venture capital investments and/or Research and Development (R&D) investments. The first problem is that, given the amount of the initial investment and the reward function at the initial public offering (IPO) market, the venture capitalist wants to maximize overall discou…

2007-03-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows institutional investments significantly impact cryptocurrency market evolution.

problem Limited understanding of institutional investments' role in cryptocurrency market evolution.
method Quantitative analysis of 1324 cryptocurrencies' investments from 2014-2022.
result Institutional investments correlate with cryptocurrency market capitalization.

Study optimizes investment strategies in volatile markets using machine learning and Bayesian techniques.

problem Enhancing portfolio management in volatile markets.
method Market segmentation into ten volatility-based states, real-time asset allocation adjustments using Bayesian Markov switching model.
result Dynamic portfolio achieves significantly higher risk-adjusted returns and total returns.

Researchers analyze optimal investment strategies for a collectivised pension fund with identical investors.

problem Optimizing investment strategies for a collectivised pension fund with identical investors.
method Analytical computation of optimal investment-consumption strategies for a fund of n identical investors with Epstein-Zin preferences.
result Constant consumption strategy is suboptimal for infinite collectives, suggesting annuities and defined benefit investments are suboptimal.

In this paper, we use replica analysis to determine the investment strategy that can maximize the net present value for portfolios containing multiple development projects. Replica analysis was developed in statistical mechanical informatics and econophysics to evaluate disordered systems, and here we use it to formula…

2018-10-15abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper evaluates investment risks in LATAM AI startups using DCF method.

problem Unique challenges and risks faced by LATAM tech startups.
method Total Addressable Market (TAM), Serviceable Available Market (SAM), and Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM) metrics; Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) method.
result Developed a ranking of emerging powers in Latin America for tech startup investment.