Posts Tagged ‘investing’
Top 15 Metros – From Switzerland to the Sonoran Desert – Fintech Securities & Investments
Shelby Cullom Davis, “one of the least talked about, but most successful investors,” managed to parlay a 1947 $50,000 investment into over $800 million by the time of his passing in 1994. A 23% compounded average annual rate of return. Not too bad. During his career Shelby advised Thomas Dewey on economic matters when he…
Read MoreTop 15 Metros – Fidelity Durham – Fintech Securities & Investments
In “places like … Raleigh, you see a real concentration of brain power. You have a lot of smart people living in the same place. That will drive the economy”, Steven P. Rosenthal, Northland Investment Corp. And so will tax incentives. The Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill combined statistical area (CSA), with over 2 million people, is the second…
Read MoreNegative Earnings Call Tone? Go Short (but not always)
Posts like “Facebook’s Q4: Conference Call Tone Matters More Than Results” in the financial press suggest that earnings call tone is important. And, invariably, the tone of the call does come up during the post call commentary and analysis. Were executives overly positive in their comments? Did they mean what they said? Did analysts’ questions…
Read MoreContext, Then Concepts, Words Last
The “five forces of context” (mobile, social media, data, sensors and location) have be called the future of computing. Why? Because they may finally give computers the ability to understand “your context”. Analysts under time and deadline pressure need to know that the information distilled by an AI solution is relevant to their context and…
Read MoreGood Concept Detection Requires an “Almost Engine”
Is “almost” good enough? In terms of concept detection, the answer is most certainly “yes”. In another guest post by Tom Marsh, CTO at Boulder Equity Analytics, Tom argues that textual analysis using BEA’s AI software allows analysts to efficiently cull through mounds of documents to eliminate the noise. What is left are “scored” paragraphs…
Read MoreRead Faster? Researchers Need to Retool to Compete
Guest Author – Tom Marsh, CTO of Boulder Equity Analytics. At Boulder Equity Analytics (BEA), “Our mission is to build an intelligent, enriched and fully interactive database from all the publicly available reports to improve the productivity and insight of the analyst covering an industry sector.” We call it O.A.K.L.E.Y, collaborative artificial intelligence, a 2nd…
Read MoreBuzzword Overkill – AI is Not a Thing People, it’s a Discipline
Guest Author – Tom Marsh, CTO of Boulder Equity Analytics AI, artificial intelligence, has been through several boom and bust cycles. Today the pronouncements are everywhere with AI coming soon to everything from medicine to your underwear. For those of us laboring in the dark for years, it feels good to be the most popular…
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