Kris Boudt @OptimizeRisk
Changemaker for information systems that integrate local news in business decisions. Lifelong income and care solutions. UN Global Compact advocate. Joined July 2012-
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In case you missed it! Kris Boudt, professor, quant analyst, co-founder of Sentometrics, and devoted participant in Chicago's annual Open Source Quantitative Finance Conference (formerly R/Finance), discusses the day his life changed: interactivebrokers.com/campus/ibkr-qu… #rstats…
📊 New Q3 2025 #ESG Reputation Risk Report! 1,400+ controversies tracked across ~1,000 firms. Key risks: governance, labour, consumer protection + rising geopolitical & energy transition disputes. Authored by @OptimizeRisk and @JordiLesaffer 👉 sentometrics.com/papers/2025Q3.…
In data analysis, 99% of the knowledge is generated in the journey — cleaning, testing, validating, exploring. If you outsource this to an LLM (Hi Claude, please clean this dataset and generate me a graph), you will learn little and very often get the wrong answer. 1/
If you haven't read "AI Agents for Economic Research" by @akorinek , you should drop everything and do it right now. Get up to date or get left behind. Link in the next post.
#EPU Austria is now available via sentometrics.com/timo?indicator…
Uitgestelde lijfrente is bovendien een product waarbij het jaarlijkse rendement toeneemt naarmate je ouder wordt. Volgens deze productfiche bedraagt het gemiddeld rendement per jaar minimaal 3,3% als je 95 jaar wordt, en zelfs 5,4% als je 105 jaar wordt. belfius.be/imagingservlet…
Uitgestelde lijfrente is bovendien een product waarbij het jaarlijkse rendement toeneemt naarmate je ouder wordt. Volgens deze productfiche bedraagt het gemiddeld rendement per jaar minimaal 3,3% als je 95 jaar wordt, en zelfs 5,4% als je 105 jaar wordt. belfius.be/imagingservlet…
De meeste wetenschappelijke artikels tonen hoe het anders en beter moet, maar laten het aan een ander om het uit te voeren waardoor het dan vaak ook niet gebeurt. Vandaar de aanbeveling om meer @GeertNoels DNA te hebben bij academici: denken, schrijven én doen.
De meeste wetenschappelijke artikels tonen hoe het anders en beter moet, maar laten het aan een ander om het uit te voeren waardoor het dan vaak ook niet gebeurt. Vandaar de aanbeveling om meer @GeertNoels DNA te hebben bij academici: denken, schrijven én doen.
Op basis van informatie over reputatie betere beslissingen nemen @OptimizeRisk sentometrics.be demorgen.be/ts-b375102f/
Five-minute intro to Sentometrics: see how to look up EU company information straight from the news. Schedule your demo: sentometrics.com/nemo
It's official: The top 10% largest US stocks now reflect a record 76% of the US equity market. This has officially surpassed the previous record set before the Great Depression in the 1930s. By comparison, at the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble peak, the top 10%'s share was at ~73%. In…
Today, GPT-5 launches across our platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry. It's the most capable model yet from our partners at OpenAI, bringing powerful new advances in reasoning, coding, and chat, all trained on Azure. It’s…
We just turned off “deep retrieval”, so hopefully you notice an improvement in recommendations. Dredging the sewage pond did not turn out to be a huge winner.
FX wordt volgens mij grote thema vd 🇪🇺 resultatenzomer $ASMI zoveelste voorbeeld Omzet +23% (constant currency) en +18% (as reported) dus wisselkoersverlies v 5 volle procentpunten door sterke euro/zwakke usd Dat + tegenvallende orderinname, not what the doctor ordered 😬
At @sentometrics our data shows that in 57% of cases, at least one media article includes a formal company response to the ESG issue at hand. This is encouraging—especially when measured against the gold standard of crisis communication: “We know. We do. We care.”
🚀 Update: Global Macro Database (GMD), 2025-06🚀 We just published the second update of the most comprehensive macroeconomic dataset ever assembled. Thanks to all who sent feedback—your input is what continuously improves this public good. 🧵 Thread
Last month, I stepped down as an editor after 6.5 years (4 REStud; 2.5 JEEA). I have gathered a few suggestions that can help you avoid unnecessary negative referee reports.
Great combo: Belga press topics x @sentometrics ESG cases. Current highlights for #science show the cases for @moodysratings and @tiktok_us
Great combo: Belga press topics x @sentometrics ESG cases. Current highlights for #environmentandsustainability show the cases for @EnecoBE
May 25 selection of @sentometrics ESG alerts via Belga Press : @KBC_BE, Paters Augustijnen and @Ryanair

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Karl Drabbe @Karl_Drabbe
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Isabel Albers @italbers
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Wouter Duyck @wduyck
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