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With the rapid advancements in technology and the increasing availability of high-quality data, quantitative FX research is becoming more sophisticated, allowing financial institutions and investors to make more informed decisions and navigate the complex and volatile foreign exchange markets. In a new video Rohini Grover, FX strategist, provides an overview of Deutsche Bank Research’s offerings in the FX quant space.

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Artificial intelligence offers the tantalising prospect of improving the perennial underperformance of companies with many employees.

In this podcast, Luke Templeman, Olga Cotaga and Adrian Cox discuss why high-staff companies tend to have a lower market capitalisation, thinner margins and lower growth rates than lower-staff ones. They analyse evidence that suggests AI could enable high-employee companies to get more value from each staff member. That may generate an outsize benefit in return on equity and potentially catalyse equity market returns in the years to come. [mehr]

Artificial Intelligence has been a sizzling hot topic since ChatGPT was launched at the end of November. For once, the hype may be (almost) justified. At Deutsche Bank Research, we thought it was time to take a step back to give a clear perspective for investors and businesses, and to dig into what the latest flavour of AI, Generative AI, will really mean for our future. [mehr]

Artificial intelligence is an overnight success that has been many years in the making. To properly anticipate what AI innovation is to come next, we went back to the source, looking at patents and venture capital deal activity that will translate into the everyday AI applications of the future. [mehr]

Companies with a large number of employees have a big problem. Quite simply, they fail to extract as much value from each staff member as do low-staff firms. Indeed, labour-intense firms tend to have a lower market cap, thinner margins, and lower growth rates.
AI may be the way forward. In this piece, we argue that AI will make workers more productive, particularly in high-staff firms. The reason is that the profitability of high-staff firms has the highest leverage to the performance of their labour force. AI will help upskill them and streamline repetitive and mundane tasks that are more prevalent in high-staff companies. [mehr]

Ist grüner Wasserstoff ein Allheilmittel gegen die Energiekrise? Nicht kurzfristig, sagt Eric Heymann, Senior Economist für Branchen, Technologie und Ressourcen bei Deutsche Bank Research. Die mittel- bis langfristigen Aussichten sind allerdings gut. [mehr]

Next week will mark six months since the launch of ChatGPT, the chatbot based on OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 large language model. There has been an extraordinary flurry of launches, hype and activity since then. Even in the past week, OpenAI, Google and Meta announced fresh products, OpenAI’s CEO testified in Congress, and the G7 called for “guardrails” on AI, among many other developments. [mehr]

With the rapid growth in AI, and the likes of ChatGPT taking the world by storm in recent months, we have seen renewed fears that human labour will be increasingly replaced over the years ahead. But this refrain has been heard regularly before over the last several centuries. [mehr]

Traditional Value and Quality investing is well understood, but how well does it translate to financial firms? In this video analyst Clayton Gillespie discusses the quant team’s latest research, which uses accounting, valuation and corporate finance insights to generate appropriate alphas for financial firms. Together they generate Value and Quality strategies that exhibit robust through-cycle behaviour and combine well with Value and Quality factors in the rest of the universe. [mehr]

In dieser Woche werden zahlreiche Konjunkturindikatoren veröffentlicht. In Deutschland werden neben den finalen BIP-Zahlen für Q1 (einschließlich den Details zu den Unterkomponenten) die Mai-Werte für den Einkaufsmanager- und den ifo-Geschäftsklimaindex veröffentlicht. Mit Blick auf die nächsten Notenbank-Sitzungen dürften in den USA und Großbritannien vor allem die neuesten Zahlen zur Verbraucherpreisinflation im Interesse der Finanzmärkte stehen. Während die US-Kerninflationsrate unserer Einschätzung nach im April auf einem hohen Niveau von 4,6% gg. Vj. (Core PCE) verharrt sein dürfte, könnte sie in Großbritannien sogar leicht auf 6,3% (von 6,2%) angestiegen sein. Zudem werden noch die „Meeting Minutes“ der Fed veröffentlicht, die weitere geldpolitische Hinweise liefern könnten. Unsere US-Kollegen gehen davon aus, dass der Zinsgipfel (also die sogenannte „Terminal Rate“) mit aktuell 5,125% bereits erreicht sein dürfte. [mehr]

The AI hype cycle is in overdrive. It feels like the volume of text generated by ChatGPT over the past six months has almost been matched by the volume of hyperbole about how foundation models will change the world. For once the hype is (mostly) justified. Generative AI is not another metaverse or, for that matter, another crypto currency. But it will change the world – for better and for worse. [mehr]

Mallika Sachdeva shares some quick takeaways about why she thinks that this time it's different for Asian currencies compared to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 when Asian currencies came under extreme stress. [mehr]