The Australian Data and AI podcast – BAML-Girish Nair

Back to the finance talks and in this session, we chat with Girish Nair (Director, Global and Asia Pac Quantitative Strategist) at Bank of America Merill Lynch (BAML). 

We learned where Girish started his data journey, from a financial analyst looking at financial statements to where he is now running quantitative strategy and analysing millions of data points to find common threads for investors at BAML. 

While his specialization is in analysing equity markets, we also discussed the importance of data for any business and how it helps companies to have more data just as much as an influx of capital can help them.

We discussed alternative data and what kind of sources are used in the investment space to analyse companies from satellite and shipping data to news and social media. 

As with all other guests, we discussed challenges that our guests overcame, and for Girish, it was about how the lag in decision making can add up to costs in the millions of dollars per year. Accessibility and adoption of technology have helped in his pursuits to answer these challenges.

Find out more about these topics and more in the interview.