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Sharpe Thinking: How Neural Nets Redraw the Frontier of Portfolio Optimization

TL;DR for operators This paper is about risk estimation, not market prophecy. The neural network does not try to forecast returns, detect tomorrow’s winners, or become a portfolio manager with a hoodie and a GPU budget. It learns how to clean covariance information so that a global minimum-variance portfolio behaves better out of sample.1 ...

July 3, 2025 · 19 min · Zelina
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Overqualified, Underprepared: Why FinLLMs Matter More Than Reasoning

TL;DR for operators Finance AI is moving past the parlour trick stage. The interesting question is no longer whether a large language model can read a financial headline and produce a plausible answer. Of course it can. The useful question is whether that answer can be converted into a measurable, governed, risk-aware decision process without accidentally building a very expensive rumour amplifier. ...

April 20, 2025 · 16 min · Zelina