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Podcast: Resolve Riffs Investment Podcast
Episode: ReSolve Riffs with ReSolve’s own Dr Andrew Butler on Integrating Prediction with Optimization
Description: Our guest this week was Dr. Andrew Butler, Chief Investment Officer here at ReSolve. He has an Honors B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics & Physics from Memorial University, an M.A. in Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Financial Engineering from York University, and a PhD from the University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering. Our conversation covered: Mentors, studying optimization, machine learning and emulating similarities Comparing methodologies used in calculating oil reserves, with empirical finance Mathematics, known truths, soft axioms and assumptions Data science, tools and hypothesis tests in finance Comparing the definitions of “noise” and different scientific metho...