Investing in companies that share your values may seem like a novel concept in an industry that’s historically been all about the bottom line, but this is changing quickly. As the tumultuous events of 2020 amplified conversations the world over about climate change and social justice, investors quickly turned their attention to the role of corporations in… Read more »
Salt Lake City-based technology company Causality Link has developed a natural-language processing platform that extracts hundreds of categories of information related to ESG, tagged against listed companies. These signals aggregate the perception of more than 8,000 news publishers worldwide to track the percentage of favorable coverage in real time, says Eric Jensen, the company’s founder.
Financial markets are impacted by a multitude of global factors. To get a complete, diverse perspective on a company or industry, information from around the world must be taken into consideration. Causality Link uses Amazon Translate to process over 500 million characters in 24 languages each month.
What was the highlight of 2020? We were fortunate to start 2020 off with the signing of a very large and significant new customer, a recognizable household name. Shortly after that, we closed a Series A investment round on the same day that the US stock exchanges halted trading. Using this round of funding, we… Read more »
Founded by an accomplished group of system designers, natural language processing experts, data scientists and software developers, Causality Link collects and aggregates more than 50,000 texts every day in 24 different languages, in real-time, through its AI-powered research assistant system to find explicit cause-and-effect statements relating to indicators and events.
Time and technology have shifted investors away from what was once a rigid elite circle of indices mostly provided by reigning players such as S&P, Russell and MSCI.
Causality Link, a Salt Lake City, Utah-based provider of AI-driven research systems, recently announced that it was releasing a number of major product enhancements to its flagship “Research Assistant” platform.
The growing computing power witnessed in the past few years has led to data becoming more accessible, often at the touch of a button. Though there are huge benefits to this, the progress also means the danger of information overload is an unfortunate reality. As more alternative datasets become available to hedge fund managers looking… Read more »