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Description: Listen in on this enlightening conversation FDP's Executive Director, Mehrzad Mahdavi had with Mike Chen and George Mussalli on their recent publication "An Integrative Approach to Quantitative ESG Investing." The conversation lasted about 1 hour.

Panelists: Mehrzad Mahdavi, Ph.D., Executive Director, FDP Institute, Mike Chen, Ph.D., Director, Equity Investments, PanAgora and George Mussalli, Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer, Equity Investments, PanAgora

Description: This webcast features Mehrzad Mahdavi and Aaron Filbeck discussing "Autonomous Learning Investment Strategies" and how it is rapidly transforming the investment management business with Michael Weinberg and Peter Strikwerda. This recording lasts approximately 1 hour.

Description: Listen in as Kathy Wilkens and Mehrzad Mahdavi sit with Tony Guida, Executive Director, Senior Quant Research, RAM Active Investments. Tony work's primarily on extracting market inefficiencies from different sources from traditional fundamentals, market signals, alternative data, and machine learning. He also co-wrote and edited "Big Data and Machine Learning in Quantitative Investment," a FDP required reading! Our conversation lasts approximately an hour including Q&A.

Description: Listen in as Kathy Wilkens and Mehrzad Mahdavi speak with Joe Simonian, Co-editor of the Journal of Financial Data Science on cases of ML/Data Science for financial applications and their outcomes. Our conversation lasts approximately 1 hour including Q&A.

Panelists: Mehrzad Mahdavi, Ph.D., Executive Director, FDP Institute, Kathy Wilkens, Senior Advisor of Curriculum, FDP Institute and Joe Simonian, Co-editor, Journal of Financial Data Science

Description: Are you interested in becoming an FDP charterholder? This webinar features members of the FDP Curriculum Team as well as Candidate Relations. The topics discussed:

• Curriculum Materials
• Exam Format
• Review of Exam Topics
• Available Resources

Panelists: Hossein Kazemi, Senior Advisor, FDP Curriculum, and Keith Black, Ph.D., CAIA, CFA, FDP, Managing Director of Curriculum and Exams, CAIA Association

Description: Listen in as Kathy Wilkens and Mehrzad Mahdavi sit with Dr. Seoyoung Kim, Associate Professor of Finance - Business Analytics, Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Dr. Kim is a Co-Author of "Zero-Revelation RegTech: Detecting Risk through Linguistic Analysis of Corporate Emails and News." This webinar lasts approximately 1 hour.

Description: Listen in as Kathy Wilkens and Mehrzad Mahdavi sit with Guen Dondè Head of Research at the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE). Some of the topics that were covered:

• What is the impact of the GDPR from an ethical standpoint?
• Can codes of ethics help?
• How involved should regulators be?

This webinar is approximately 60 minutes with Q&A.

Description: Listen in as Kathy Wilkens and Mehrzad Mahdavi sit with Gene Getman Co-author of "Big Data is a Big Deal: An investor’s guide to the applications and challenges of alternative data" (one of the readings for the upcoming FDP Exam). This webcast lasted approximately 60 minutes including Q&A.