Advanced Computer Applications for Investment Managers

by James Essinger

This unique consultancy report is the first to analyse the use of technology in today's investment management business, and the role which this technology is likely to play in the future. Within the next five years, the function of the investment manager will completely change. Computers will be relied on to do most of the analysis of incoming material, and even much of the decision-making. Artificial intelligence and advanced financial modelling techniques have combined to create a scenario where investment managers' computer systems are already displaying a high level of intelligence and a real ability to replicate human expertise. This report is essential reading for all investment managers, fund sponsors, management consultants and suppliers of computer hardware, software and systems.

128 pages, Paperback

Published October 25, 1989

About the author

Hi! My name is James Essinger and I'm a writer of fiction and non-fiction.

In my fiction I have a particular interest in personal relationships, travel, history, information technology and chess.

In my non-fiction I have a particular interest in the history of computing, and in language.

I was born in Leicester in the English Midlands in 1957 and I attended Overdale Junior School in Leicester and also Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys. After a year between school and university, I studied English Language and Literature at Lincoln College, which is part of the University of Oxford.

After leaving university I taught English in Finland for three nine-month sessions. I learnt Finnish, and I still speak Finnish fairly fluently. I also speak German and French.

My interests, aside from writing, include: my friends, movies, travel, chess and history.