article thumbnail

MiB: Peter Borish, Tudor Investments & Robin Hood

Barry Ritholtz

His philanthropy includes sitting on the board of directors of Paul Tudor Jones’ Robin Hood Foundation and Jim Simon’s Math for America. Borish also explains why “Trading and risk management are inherently unnatural.” Borish also previously served as chief strategist for Quad Group LLC.

article thumbnail

Oil & Gas Labor Shortages

VCFO

Renewable energy by nature demands different talent pools with more advanced technical and math skills to help guide the initiatives. Some historically fossil-focused oil and gas organizations have moved to diversify in that direction, but that too has brought recruitment challenges of its own.

Math 96
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Q&A with finance leader: Lead with context, coach with content

Future CFO

I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. This role broadened my understanding of the intricacies of financial oversight and enterprise risk management. Kris Giswold (KG): My journey in finance began with my love of puzzles and numbers.

Finance 52
article thumbnail

Trusting Machines To Trust The Right Credit Applicants

PYMNTS

In Merrill’s experience, regulators have been cautiously interested in machine learning for underwriting; they simply lack the proper framework to understand the new math. The algorithm can also help identify applicants with falsely high ratings – effectively switching out bad candidates for good ones.

Math 40
article thumbnail

Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Barry Ritholtz

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. Absolutely.

article thumbnail

You Heard It Here First: Best Of 2018’s Monday Conversations

PYMNTS

And while the enthusiasm is good, according to Bresniker, the usage is sloppy and tends to obscure the fact that 1) there are many different types of AI, and the one to which we are specifically referring matters; and 2) AI is all math, and its outputs are only as good as the data sources it draws from and the programmers that set its rules.

Math 60
article thumbnail

Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

Barry Ritholtz

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

Math 52