The fast-approaching MiFID 2 deadline is a welcome endpoint for many ops and compliance teams. But for those fund managers using next-generation analytics to improve performance, the recently created MiFID-driven data sets are an invaluable source of insight.
The Performance Revolution of the 80's and 90's had a dramatic impact on British sport and was a major factor in the UK's Olympic success at Rio. What are the lessons for active managers in an increasingly competitive fund flow arena?
By popular demand and after lots of great suggestions from you, we've updated the Essentia Recommended Reading List (one of our most downloaded white papers). Check out the additions to one of the best surveys of behavioral titles available.
We talk to Snežana Pejić PhD, Senior Quantitative Researcher at Essentia's London office. She tells us why crunching investor performance data trumps a life in academia, and how the new union between technology and behavioral science is helping people to become better investors.
Speculation is increasing about Google’s ambitions in the asset management space. In this article, Eric Rovick argues that the real threat is not Google’s technology, but its culture and a willingness to focus on process and behavior. Today’s asset managers would do well to learn from this approach as more new entrants enter the market.
In these free webinar recordings, two highly respected investment coaches talk about the everyday thoughts and reactions to be aware of as you start to factor cognitive science into your own investment activity.
How creative is your investment thinking when you're stressed? Professor Mark Fenton-O’Creevy looks at nature and scientific evidence to illustrate that we may be less flexible than we think.
Jesse Livermore, the legendary investor represented in the investment classic, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, was known for his trading and investment skill. He was also a keen advocate of self-awareness and documenting the behavioral factors that impact investment performance.
