In this episode we hear from Jamie Wise, Founder, President and CEO of Hedge Fund Periscope Capital and BUZZ Holdings.  He discusses the merit of tracking sentiment as an investing factor, the use of social media and online platforms as a discussion tool for retail investors, identifying alphas from those posts, and what those posts say about sentiment right now.  Jamie Wise is in discussion with Eloise Goulder, Head of the Data Assets & Alpha Group.  

To read more about Periscope Capital, see https://www.periscopecap.com/

Note that BUZZ Holdings created the BUZZ NextGen AI US Sentiment Leaders Index, which is currently licensed by Van Eck & Associates for use in the VanEck Social Sentiment ETF (NYSE: BUZZ). 

This episode was recorded on September 12, 2023.

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