BILLIONS Explained: The Rise of Taylor Mason - Use of Alternative Data
Channel: InvestOrama
Date: 2021-06-25

We are going inside Taylor Mason's brain for this new teardown of a Billions episode.
They (Taylor) manage to figure out which company Axelrod's hedge fund competitor is investing in, and see if they should short the trade via satellite data.
Is this realistic in the real world of alternative investments? Can we replicate the strategy using financial technology (fintech) and alternative data?

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Financial concepts in this episode:
👉Alternative Data vs Traditional Data
👉Machine Learning
👉 Hedge funds (Steve Cohen)

SOURCES
Podcast interview with Mark Fleming Williams from Exabel: https://youtu.be/O72DaHOD0VQ
NLP for investment management: https://www.fintext.io/how-finance-uses-nlp/barings-investing-media-tracking-ner/
Portfolio of Steve Cohen: https://hedgefollow.com/funds/Point72+Asset+Management
We use a scene of  BILLIONS Season 2 Episode 2. No copyright intended, we use this under Fair Use and for educational purpose.

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Emmy® and Golden Globe® winners Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis star in a complex drama about power politics in the world of New York high finance. Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Giamatti) and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod (Lewis) are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmanoeuvre the other. The stakes are in the billions in this timely, provocative series.

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