The 7 Reasons Most Machine Learning Funds Fail (Presentation Slides)

The rate of failure in quantitative finance is high, and particularly so in financial machine learning. The few managers who succeed amass a large amount of assets, and deliver consistently exceptional performance to their investors. However, that is a rare outcome, for reasons that will become apparent in this presentation. Over the past two decades, I have seen many faces come and go, firms started and shut down. In my experience, there are 7 critical mistakes underlying most of those failures. This paper is partly based on the book Advances in Financial Machine Learning (Wiley, 2018).