The power of the ever-increasing tools and algorithms for prediction and their paradoxical effects on risk.The Age of Prediction is about two powerful, and symbiotic, trends: the rapid development and use of artificial intelligence and big data to enhance prediction, as well as the often paradoxical effects of these better predictions on our understanding of risk and the ways we live. Beginning with dramatic advances in quantitative investing and precision...

Learn from a master of quantitative finance the rules that made him a success.The UnRules presents the dynamic rules for success in the age of exponential information. Written by Igor Tulchinsky, the trader behind global quantitative investment management firm WorldQuant, this book is more than just another Big Data guide for financial wonks—it's a prescriptive, inspirational book for everyone navigating the tidal waves of the information age. Data is ever...

Discover the ins and outs of designing predictive trading modelsDrawing on the expertise of WorldQuant’s global network, this new edition of Finding Alphas: A Quantitative Approach to Building Trading Strategies contains significant changes and updates to the original material, with new and updated data and examples.Nine chapters have been added about alphas – models used to make predictions regarding the prices of financial instruments. The new ch...