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FISD Day 2020 Program

VIRTUAL WEBINARS

June 3, 2020 1:00 P.M. US Eastern Time

FISD Webinar: Compliance Panel Redux

REGISTER NOW Members: FREE | Non-Members: $200The conversation continues! Those familiar with the well-received “Resistance is Futile, Compliance is Required” panel held on February 23 might have appreciated further Trekkie […]

Alternative Data Council: Web Data Collection and Interacting with Robots.TXT

May 4 @11am - 12 pm US Eastern Time
The Robots Exclusion Protocol, often called “robots.txt,” is used by websites to communicate with web crawlers and other web robots, or “bots”. It can signal to the web robot which areas of the website should not be processed or scanned.

Everything You Need to Know About LIBOR Replacement Rates

May 20 @ 10:00am - 11:00am US Eastern Time
LIBOR fell out of favor some time ago, but now that the FCA has set a firm deadline for the end of the benchmark, there's a timeline to act. Come to this session with your questions about handling the LIBOR transition. Panelists will discuss everything you want to know about what's happening with RFRs leading up to the December 31 sunset date and beyond.

Buy-Side Fireside Chat and Roundtable: Confessions of a Quant with Avi Rosenbluth

May 27 @ 10:00am - 11:20am US Eastern Time
The Alternative Data council presents this fireside chat and roundtable discussion with Avi Rosenbluth, a quantitative portfolio manager. Avi has deep and broad experience utilizing data to make investment decisions through recent executive roles at AQR and Goldman Sachs. This will be a wonderful opportunity to hear from a typically tight-lipped section of the industry and to discuss your thoughts with peers.

Topics will include:

• the data requirements of discretionary vs. systematic strategies and how alternative data is facilitating some approaches and may hamstring others
• the importance of timely, frequent, curated and reliable data and what happens when any of these elements is not present
• what machine learning can and cannot do
• advice for vendors on when to pursue and when to abandon building out a particular data set
• the role of regulations and standards in supporting the growth of the alternative data industry.

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