The rise of so-called quantitative funds—mutual funds run by algorithms and computer models—has led investors to ask: Are machines better than humans at delivering consistently good investment returns ...

Bvvvvmmmmm. Ti ka ti ka ti ka tik. Psshhht. Monday, 9 am. It's canning day at Brick West Brewing Company. In the brewery behind the taproom, a loud hum echoes between huge holding tanks of beer. A ...

A recent study, “Picking Winners in Factorland: A Machine Learning Approach to Predicting Factor Returns,” set out to answer a critical question: Can machine learning techniques improve the prediction ...

To build a machine, one must know what its parts are and how they fit together. To understand the machine, one needs to know what each part does and how it contributes to its function. In other words, ...