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Alik Sokolov

PhD Student, University of Toronto
Verified email at mail.utoronto.ca
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[HTML][HTML] Building machine learning systems for automated ESG scoring

A Sokolov, J Mostovoy, J Ding… - The Journal of Impact …, 2021 - jesg.pm-research.com
Although investing in environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-driven portfolios is
already a large and growing portion of global assets under management, applications of …

Weak supervision and Black-Litterman for automated ESG portfolio construction

A Sokolov, K Caverly, J Mostovoy… - The Journal of …, 2021 - jfds.pm-research.com
The authors propose an approach that combines modern machine learning techniques in
natural language processing with portfolio optimization to incorporate views of companies’ …

[PDF][PDF] Building machine learning systems to automate ESG index construction

A Sokolov, J Mostovoy, J Ding, L Seco - 2020 - seco.risklab.ca
Although investing in Environment-Social-Governance (ESG) driven portfolios is already a
large and growing portion of global assets under management, applications of quantitative …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the impact of sustainability on fund flows: an excess information approach and US-based case study

A Sokolov, J Mostovoy, E Losing… - The Journal of Impact …, 2022 - pm-research.com
Motivated by studies of the interplay between environmental, social and governance (ESG)
factors and fund flows, the authors demonstrate an alternative approach for analyzing the …

[PDF][PDF] Integrating health and economic parameters to optimize COVID-19 mitigation strategies

A Sokolov, Y Chen, J Mostovoy, A Robert, L Seco… - Covid Economics, 2020 - cepr.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has unequivocally impacted nearly every individual, household,
business, and organization on a global scale, with wide-ranging consequences for which …

RIFT: Pretraining and Applications for Representations of Interrelated Financial Time Series.

A Sokolov, J Kim, B Parker… - Journal of Financial …, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
This article introduces a new financial time-series representation model called representations
of interrelated financial time series (RIFT). RIFT combines a novel pretraining task and …

Domain Specific Fine-tuning of Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Models for Natural Language Summarization

B Parker, A Sokolov, M Ahmed, M Kalebic… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Summarization of long-form text data is a problem especially pertinent in knowledge economy
jobs such as medicine and finance, that require continuously remaining informed on a …

[PDF][PDF] Neural Embeddings of Financial Time-Series Data

A Sokolov, J Mostovoy, B Parker… - The Journal of Financial …, 2020 - seco.risklab.ca
The dominant approaches for financial portfolio construction are reliant on estimating sample
covariance and correlations matrices, which serve as an input into a number of classical …

Towards Automating Causal Discovery in Financial Markets and Beyond

A Sokolov, F Sabelli, W Li, LA Seco - Behzad and Li, Wuding …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper introduces a novel machine learning (ML) framework for causal discovery based
on recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) and discusses the applications of …

Practical Applications of Weak Supervision and Black–Litterman for Automated ESG Portfolio Construction

A Sokolov, K Caverly, J Mostovoy, T Fahoum… - Practical …, 2021 - pm-research.com
In Weak Supervision and Black–Litterman for Automated ESG Portfolio Construction , published
in the Summer 2021 issue of The Journal of Financial Data Science, Alik Sokolov of SR.…