
Alternative Data: Can Technology Make Us Less Reliant on the Government for Macro-economic News?
Unlike private entities, governments can acquire information spanning entire populations, making them a unique source of macro news. In this seminar, Professor Abhiroop Mukherjee will use data on crude oil futures to show that recent advances in satellite imagery can reduce this reliance on the state. Also, the identification strategy exploits variation in local cloud cover over a handful of supply chain bottlenecks – key to oil inventory predictions – as a series of random


MSGF Online Seminar - Fine Wine as Alternative Investment (May 28, 8-9:30am New York time)
According to a report by London-based Liv-ex 100 released in Dec 2018, the benchmark for the fine wine market has eluded the roller coasters experienced by global equities, trading within a 2% range throughout 2018. (Full article: https://www.barrons.com/articles/fine-wine-outperformed-global-equities-in-2018-01544734939) The MSGF Integrative Projects always arouse practical and seasonal discussion on the current finance industry. One of our MSGF Class of 2018 Integrative Pro