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Asset Management – Client Segmentation (Part 3 of 4)

Tom Spencer

Mutual funds may also go through independent broker channels to be sold on a pure commission basis, although upfront fees ( loads and deferred service charges ) are disappearing amidst investor knowledge and ethical concerns. For example, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB).

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A Guide to Solving Social Problems with Machine Learning

Harvard Business

In bail, it turns out that different forms of crime are correlated enough so that an algorithm trained on just one type of crime winds up out-predicting judges on almost every measure of criminality we could construct, including violent crime. The point is that the outcome you select for your algorithm will define it.

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