Mitra The Handbook of News Analytics in Finance

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-119-99080-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Finance Series

The Handbook of News Analytics in Finance is a landmarkpublication bringing together the latest models and applications ofNews Analytics for asset pricing, portfolio construction, tradingand risk control.
The content of the Hand Book is organised to provide arapid yet comprehensive understanding of this topic. Chapter 1 setsout an overview of News Analytics (NA) with an explanation of thetechnology and applications. The rest of the chapters are presentedin four parts. Part 1 contains an explanation of methods and modelswhich are used to measure and quantify news sentiment. In Part 2the relationship between news events and discovery of abnormalreturns (the elusive alpha) is discussed in detail by the leadingresearchers and industry experts. The material in this part alsocovers potential application of NA to trading and fund management.Part 3 covers the use of quantified news for the purpose ofmonitoring, early diagnostics and risk control. Part 4 is entirelyindustry focused; it contains insights of experts from leadingtechnology (content) vendors. It also contains a discussion oftechnologies and finally a compact directory of content vendor andfinancial analytics companies in the marketplace of NA. Thebook draws equally upon the expertise of academics andpractitioners who have developed these models and is supported bytwo major content vendors - RavenPack and Thomson Reuters - leadingproviders of news analytics software and machine readablenews.
The book will appeal to decision makers in the banking, finance andinsurance services industry. In particular: asset managers;quantitative fund managers; hedge fund managers; algorithmictraders; proprietary (program) trading desks; sell-side firms;brokerage houses; risk managers and research departments willbenefit from the unique insights into this new and pertinent areaof financial modelling.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mitra, Gautam

Mitra, Leela

Über Autor(innen)

Gautam Mitra (London, UK) is an internationally renowned research scientist in the field of computational optimisation and modelling. He has developed a world class research group in his area of specialisation with researchers from Europe, UK, USA and Asia. He has published three books and over one hundred refereed research articles. He was Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Brunel University between 1990 and 2001. In 2001 he established CARISMA: The Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Optimisation Modelling Applications. CARISMA specialises in the research of risk and optimisation and their combined paradigm in decision modelling. Professor Mitra is also a Director of UNICOM Seminars and OptiRisk Systems; OptiRisk specialises in the research and development of optimisation and financial analytics tools.
Leela Mitra (London, UK) is a Quantitative Analyst at OptiRisk Systems. Dr Mitra joined OptiRisk System as a Quantitative Analyst in 2004. She received her PhD in Operational Research on the topic of "Scenario generation for asset allocation models" from CARISMA, Brunel University. Topics included "mixed" scenario sets for investment decisions with downside risk, pricing and evaluating a bond portfolio using a regime switching Markov model and desirable properties for scenario generation. She has a first class BA (Joint Honours) degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from King's College (University of London). Prior to joining OptiRisk, Leela worked in the pensions industry as an actuarial consultant for Mercer HR and subsequently with Jardine Lloyd Thomson. She is part qualified as an actuary.