Is bitcoin a ‘safe-haven’ or still too risky for institutional investors to include as part of a larger portfolio allocation? How is systematic investing changing today with the influence of neural networks and artificial intelligence? 

Michael Oliver Weinberg, host of the  Improving Alpha: Innovation in Investing ESG, and Technology podcast invites Ciamac Moallemi, William von Mueffling Professor of Business Decision, Risk, and Operations Division, Columbia Business School, to unravel some of the mysteries behind decentralized finance (DeFi) and quantitative investing. Cimac will detail his expertise and how his ‘agnostic’ career interests have led him from early beginnings in science to financial applications in hedge funds, and more.

Ciamac discusses: 

• the definition of stochastic control, and how it is applied to blockchains and decentralized finance.
  
• how neural networks have changed both in technological computing power and the investment costs to run that power today.
  
• what was the catalyst for writing the paper, “Monopoly without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment System”, and what Cimac believes Bitcoin really is at its core.
  
• the technology perspective of Ethereum and how that is different from the Bitcoin framework. Will one prevail over the other as we move forward?
  
• an academic and practitioner background when it comes to systematic investing today. What are the three main pieces of systematic investing, and why it shouldn’t be thought of as a black box.
  
• And more
  

Resources:

• Monopoly Without a Monopolist Bitcoin
  

Connect with Ciamac Moallemi:

• LinkedIn: Ciamac Moallemi
  
• moallemi.com/ciamac 
  

Connect with Michael Oliver Weinberg: 

• Michael Oliver Weinberg
  
• Vidrio
  

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