Host Jamie McDonald, former portfolio manager at one of the world’s top hedge funds, teams up with LSEG for this new award winning podcast series, to take a deep, open and honest look at what the world of hedge funds is all about. We’ll dive into what it’s actually like to work at a hedge fund, stories of failure and success, what crypto hedge funds are all about, and much, much more.
 
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                                            &lt;p&gt;How do hedge funds decide which news and data sources they can truly trust? In this episode, hosted by Elizabeth Kuhr, director of news content strategy at LSEG we sit down with Vik Bansal, Systematic Portfolio Manager at Centiva Capital, David Tattan, Business Lead of LSEG EMEA Execution Solutions, and Alexandre Hardouin, Head of Equities at LSEG, to explore the growing importance of trusted news, transparent data, and human validation in modern investment workflows. From balancing speed and accuracy to evaluating alternative data sources, AI-generated outputs, and the cost of adding new datasets, our guests unpack what it takes to build confidence in the information driving trading decisions today.&lt;/p&gt;<br />
&lt;h3&gt;Chapters&lt;/h3&gt;<br />
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;(00:00:01) - Introduction&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;(00:01:57) - Defining a trustworthy source&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;(00:03:45) - Bringing news sources into hedge funds&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;(00:06:26) - Analysing data: Human vs machine&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;(00:07:53) - Verifying sources: Trust and technology&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;(00:10:00) - Speed vs accuracy: Finding the right balance&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;(00:17:55) - Alternative data sources&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;(00:23:45) - News and data: AI strategies&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;(00:26:47) - AI and information filtering&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;(00:28:40) - Factchecking LLM output with AI&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;(00:31:40) - Differentiating data sources&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;(00:32:40) - Investments hedge funds should be making&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;<br />
                                    

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