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Made-to-Order Speeches
No two of David Leinweber’s speeches are the same. Each speech is tailored to developments in your industry and for the audience and setting. He relates his topics to the state of the markets and the debate on the future of finance. He delivers insight, with clarity and wit, to people trying to navigate through unprecedented times.
Seeing Your Business as Investors See It
Investors collectively look at all firms in search of investment opportunity. They bring a great deal of expertise and technology to this effort. Individual firms can use the same methods for business intelligence─to see their own firms as others see it, and to see competitors in the full light of the web.
Tech and the Wreck of ’08
The financial crisis of 2008 is one of the great technological disasters in history. None of this would have been possible without computers. Who is to blame for the interconnected structure for disaster that came so close to taking the global economy with it when it crashed? What should we be doing to avoid a dreadful encore performance?
Investing in the Web Era
Technology transforms the playing field of investment information. The middlemen are gone in trading, trading floors are vanishing. Reporters are role as information middlemen is redefined in the web era. If you had everything computationally, where would you put it, financially?
About David Leinweber
Recognized by billionaire investors and traders as one the greatest financial innovators of our time while also known to his Wall Street colleagues as the class clown of the quantitative investing industry, David Leinweber helps audience learn─and laugh─at the worlds of finance, technology and the economy.
Being a successful investor today and tomorrow—individual or institutional—involves more than stock picking, asset allocation or market timing: it involves technology. David Leinweber helps audiences go beyond the numbers to see exactly how this technology has become more responsible for managing modern markets. In his intriguing and entertaining presentations, Leinweber discusses where technology on Wall Street has been, what it has meant and how it will impact the markets of tomorrow. Currently a Fellow in Finance at the University of California Berkeley, Leinweber is the author of Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines and Wired Markets, where he shares the tale of the ongoing technological transformation of the world's financial markets. He is also a semi-serial entrepreneur who established two visionary financial technology firms, Integrated Analytics and Codexa. In between, for nearly a decade, Leinweber successfully managed over $6 billion of institutional quant equity portfolios spanning 25 global strategies. He also writes a monthly column "Nerd on Wall Street" for Institutional Investor which is a "back-of-the-magazine" feature inspired by his book.
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