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Formerly Guiding Assets, Enterprising Investor is the flagship podcast of CFA Institute and the definitive program for the investment management industry. As stewards of the investment industry, Guiding Assets will feature intimate conversations with some of the most influential people from the world of finance about the topics that matter most to investment professionals. The show will also share crucial insights and best practices to help guide investors to make smart, ethical decisions. Enterprising Investor will continue to help build a better world for investors.

Host: Mike Wallberg, CFA

Producer: Mitchell Forst 

Mar 10, 2021

Andrew Lo discusses his various fields of expertise and research with Anastasia Diakaki. Professor Lo's most recent work in healthcare finance, more timely than ever, serves as the starting point for a conversation covering the COVID-19 pandemic, machine learning applications in biopharma, artificial intelligence and the interpretability of machine learning results in the finance industry. When it comes to preparing for the future, we ask Andrew Lo: "Do we all need to become computer scientists?"

 

Topics discussed:

1:30 - Professor Lo’s philosophy and approach in health care finance sector

2:43 - Applications: what are the implications of these tools?

4:51 - Lo’s view on the pandemic and the acceleration of some processes

6:41 - Machine learning applications and health care

8:58 - Successes and improvements to algorithms in practice

10:57 - Computer science – the new life skill to have

13:24 - Machine learning algorithm used in the investment process

15:25 - Are your current students more comfortable with science skills?

16:55 - AI and human intelligence

 

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Find Anastasia here:

 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasiadiakaki/?originalSubdomain=uk

 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/anastdiakaki

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Find Lauren here:

 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-foster/

 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenfosternyc

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