AI Advancement Award 2023
The winners of the PLEXUS Artificial Intelligence Award from 2023
The winners of the PLEXUS Advancement Award for
Artificial Intelligence from 2023
The PLEXUS Artificial Intelligence Award
In 2023, PLEXUS Investments offered the “PLEXUS Award for Artificial Intelligence in Finance” for the forth time. The award was once again endowed with 10,000 Euros, which will benefit the winners’ further research on AI and machine learning in the financial sector.
The Winners 2023
This year the PLEXUS Advancement Award was won by three applicants: Mathis Moerke, PhD (Universität St. Gallen), Konrad Mueller (Universität Zürich/ETH Zürich) and Valentin Hasner (LMU Munich). Their research papers are linked below the photos.
Valentin Hasner
Predictive Capabilities of LSTM Networks: A Case Study of the STOXX Europe 600 Index
The Panel of Judges
Christof Kutscher
Chairman of the Board of Directors at Bergos AG (Zurich), Executive Chairman Climate Asset Management (London), and formerly Chairman of the Board at AXA Investment Managers, Paris.
Prof. Walter Farkas
Professor of Quantitative Finance with the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich, and Associate Member of the Department of Mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).
Prof. Stefan Mittnik
Professor of Financial Econometrics, until 2020 at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU) and co-founder of Scalable Capital, a digital financial service provider.
The Conditions of Participation
The deadline for submitting research papers was 12/31/2023. Students with their Master’s thesis (in exceptional cases Bachelor’s thesis) and doctoral candidates with their dissertation submitted to a university or university of applied sciences to obtain their respective academic degree were eligible to participate. Read the complete conditions of participation in the linked document.
The PLEXUS AI-Conference 2024
PLEXUS Investments AG once again organised the award ceremony for the 2023 PLEXUS Award as part of the AI Conference “Artificial Intelligence in the Financial Sector”. This time again as an in-person event in Frankfurt am Main. It will take place at May 7, 2024. The conference will be held in German and renowns AI fund managers shared their technology expertise alongside the award winners.
Read the programme here:
Here you will find an expert contribution from the award winners.
Many fund experts are sceptical about artificial intelligence for investments. Science is already further ahead: three examples of how AI can improve the quality of the industry. Insights from Guenter Jaeger from Plexus Investments as well as Konrad Mueller, Valentin Hasner and Mathis Moerke.
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