Ai-powered investment decision

Vision

Our vision

Can you predict how a multitude of drivers will impact financial markets?

In a complex environment with contradictory signals, it is crucial to identify relevant variables to rationalize investment decision.

Ai for Alpha designs Artificial Intelligence solutions to help investment professionals understand key drivers of financial regimes and build resilient allocations.

Ai For Alpha makes the bridge between Ai and investment decisions

Approach

Our approach

Ai For Alpha has developed a “Decoding” technology to infer the positions of an investment strategy based on its historical valuation.

The model identifies the optimal portfolio that most closely replicates the performance of a specific benchmark.

Ai for Alpha licenses decoding portfolios to investors, providing liquid access to actively managed strategies.

Solution

Investors can choose between the most accurate replication (pure Decoding), or enhanced replications with a focus on alpha generation.

Pure decoding

Maximum correlation
  • CTAs
  • Risk Parity

Tactical decoding

High correlation
Enhanced performance
  • Global Balanced Funds
  • US Equities

Hyper decoding

Unconstrained Decoding
  • Risk-Off CTA
  • Private Equity

Tactical Decoding

Tactical decoding uses prediction signals to selectively deviate from the pure replication, with the aim of improving performance while maintaining a strong correlation with the benchmark.

Pure replication Tactical position Enhanced replication
Equity 30.0% 2.0% 32.0%
Bond 49.0% 3.0% 52.0%
Commodity 7.0% -0.5% 6.5%
Fx vs. USD -60.0% -10.2% -70.2%
CDS Credit 10.9% 1.0% 11.9%
Suggested Replication example

Comparison with Benchmark

The Decoding Strategy is compared to the Benchmark in term of performance and risk on a daily basis.

Comparison with benchmark
Decoding Accuracy High
Correlation 89%
Tracking error 5.6%

Value proposition for investors

Hight correlation with the Benchmark

Realized correlation above 85%

Reduced risk

Eliminate idiosyncrastic risk linked to a single asset manager

Liquidity

Strategies bases on liquid futures

Transparency

Investors have access to the daily allocation and performance attribution on their portal

Cost-efficient

Optimized execution and structure fees

Clients & partners

Our clients are

Institutional Investors

Investment Banks

Asset Managers

Wealth Managers

Société Générale
Meilleur Placement
Homa Capital
Lombard Odier
altaprofits
im global partner
edmond de rothschild
citi
saham
ca_indosuez
hsbc
point 72
corum butler
mon placement
via am
metlife
intuitae
qrt
securian
bnp paribas

Awards

eit
Ai For Alpha has received funding from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).
This body of the European Union receives support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.
Finance Innovation
Ai For Alpha has received the worldwide Finance Innovation label in 2020.
women_tech
Only French fintech to be awarded the 2023 Women TechEU Award.
microsoft
Ai For Alpha has been selected by the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub.

Decoding Technology

Ai For Alpha's "Decoding" technology infers investment strategy positions based on historical valuations. Using machine learning, the system identifies the optimal portfolio that best replicates the performance of a given benchmark.
This approach enhances the accuracy and flexibility of the replication framework.

Factors

Ai For Alpha designs the most relevant factors across asset classes and investment strategies to enable accurate replication.

Decoding Models

The Ai For Alpha Decoding model infers the dynamic exposure to each factor in order to maximize correlation with the benchmark.

Allocation

The weights are reallocated daily to achieve the desired target volatility while tracking the benchmark.

Enhanced Decoding

Ai For Alpha uses its predictive signals to outperform the Benchmark.
value_proposition
The prediction model scans a multitude of factors impacting financial markets to enhance the performance of the Decoded Strategy.
Technical indicators
Market Breadth, Investors Positioning
Price Indicators
Risk adjusted returns, Volatilities, Momentum
Risk Perception
Implied Volatilities, Credit Spreads
Macroeconomic factors
Growth, Inflation, Interest Rates’ evolution, Central Banks monetary decisions
Financial Metrics
Earnings, Sales, Valuation Multiples

Augmented Intelligence

Augmented Intelligence

Leveraging on Ai potential, investment decisions take on a more powerful dimension.

An Algorithm Trained Over Time

An Algorithm Trained Over Time

Our incremental model is continuously being trained and developed with the most recent market data.

Strategic Use of Data

Strategic Use of Data

Macroeconomics, interest rates, government decisions, inflation and company valuations: Ai for Alpha analyzes hundreds of drivers by testing their prediction power on specific markets.

Infer Daily Investment Decision / Allocation of Market Environment

Infer Daily Investment Decision / Allocation of Market Environment

Proprietary models find optimal allocations based on predictions derived from data.

Anticipating Market Risks

Anticipating Market Risks

Predicting asset returns with 100% accuracy will always be deceiving. Our proprietary models have identified common invariants to bull and bear market regimes in various asset classes. Our systems detect the most meaningful relationships between factors and market dynamics.

Explainable Data

Explainable Data

Our approach is fully transparent. We apply our “features importance” methodology to extract key drivers that impact portfolio allocation at any time.

Team

Management

CEO & Board Member

Béatrice has more than 20 years of experience in financial markets. She held various management positions in structuring departments in top tier US and European banks (JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale). Béatrice graduated from the engineering schools Ecole Polytechnique and ENSAE. She holds two masters’ degrees, in financial mathematics from LPSM (laboratoire de probabilités statistique & modélisation) and in finance from the London School of Economics.

Main Team Members

Head of Research & Board Member

Eric has held leadership roles as head of quants at Goldman Sachs and Natixis. He founded Pricing Partners, a startup focused on pricing complex financial products, which was later acquired by Refinitiv (formerly Thomson Reuters).

Ranked among the top 1% of researchers on SSRN (Social Science Research Network), Eric holds a global ranking within the top 10 among 500,000 researchers, with over 100 published papers and articles.

A graduate of Polytechnique, Eric also completed degrees at ENSAE and the London School of Economics. He holds three PhDs in Economics, Mathematics, and Computer Science, along with two master’s degrees, including one in AI from Dauphine and ENS Ulm. Additionally, he achieved the prestigious Agrégation in Mathematics.

Head of Solutions & Board Member

Jean-Jacques has over 15 years' experience in investment management and research. During this time, he has designed various cutting-edge trading models for numerous asset classes.

Jean-Jacques began his career at Crédit Agricole Asset Management in 1999 as a risk manager and worked as a fund manager for Natixis AM and Finaltis. He founded a fintech called Riskelia, which was acquired by Homa Capital, where he was CIO and created several quantitative funds.

Jean-Jacques received the Lipper Award in 2019 for the best Futures fund managed over three years. He is a regular guest on Financial TV. He is an alumnus of the CentraleSupélec engineering school and holds a CFA.


Chief Revenue Officer & Board Member

Thomas has over 20 years of experience in capital markets, specializing in structured products, derivatives, and Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS).

He began his career covering Latin America at Commerzbank and Crédit Agricole in London and New York, and then spent 15 years at Société Générale promoting investor solutions to U.S. and Latin American institutions.

Thomas is an alumnus of Dauphine University and Brandeis University.


Quantitative Researcher

Ethan previously worked as a Quant/Data Scientist at AlphaBeta and as an Assistant Trader at Natixis CIB. He holds an MSc in Data Science from CentraleSupélec and an engineering degree in quantitative finance from ESILV.


Quantitative Researcher Intern

Chamyl previously worked as a Market Risk Data Scientist at Natixis CIB. He holds an engineering degree with a specialization in quantitative finance from ECE Paris.

Board

Business Angel and Senior Advisor in Fintech. Founder and Former Deputy CEO at Ossiam
Managing Director, Senior Advisor ESG
General Manager of EMEA at AptiviO, serial entrepreneur in the digital field