Being well-informed is a
key enabler of the best financial management. Modeling is an important means
of gaining such information. Our technology allows the analyst to encode their
financial models, and to apply them to a range of possibilities. By studying
the predictions of the models, the analyst can discover which of the
possibilities best match the real market data, or which of the possibilities
would have the worst or the best performance if they were chosen. Aetion's
approach provides substantial computer assistance in generating the
possibilities, determining their predictions, and finding the most noteworthy
among them. Applications of our system include:
 | Explaining financial data in terms of hidden causes, to discover and
exploit theories as to what is happening
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| Designing complex financial instruments
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| Managing portfolios of assets, insurance, or other matters of
considering choices of parameters and combinations for financial planning
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| Discovering and correcting exposure to risk
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Being able to find which
hypothesis best explains the observations allows the analyst to guess what is
really happening in a market. Being able to efficiently survey a large number
of possible choices for some financial decision, trading off among the cost
and the performance of the best, allows the analyst to gain a consistent edge
in optimal decision-making.
