fe new mexico usa in march 1991 by j. doyne farmer norman packard and james mcgill . the company uses forecasting techniques to build black box trading systems for financial markets mainly employing statistical learning theory . in september 1992 prediction company entered into an exclusive contract with o connor and associates a chicago derivatives trading house to provide investment advice and technology . soon after o connor merged with swiss bank corporation which later merged with union bank of switzerland ubs . prediction company s contract was renewed multiple times and in 2005 ubs purchased prediction company outright . after being a wholly owned subsidiary of ubs prediction company was acquired in 2013 by an affiliate of millennium partners l.p. contents 1 see also 2 references 3 further reading 4 external links see also edit biosgroup roger jones references edit bass thomas a. 1999 . the predictors . new york henry holt . isbn 0 8050 5756 0 . further reading edit bass thomas a. april 26 1999 . black box what happens when maverick physicists in new mexico set out to predict the markets pdf . the new yorker . retrieved 2015 03 31 . kelly kevin 1994 . chapter 22 prediction machinery . out of control . perseus books . isbn 978 020148340 6 . retrieved 2015 03 31 . focardi sergio m. 1997 . modeling the market new theories and techniques . john wiley & sons . pp. 16 20 75 81 . isbn 9781883249120 . weatherall james owen 2013 . the physics of wall street a brief history of predicting the unpredictable . houghton mifflin harcourt . pp. 130 158 . isbn 9780547317274 . external links edit official website v t e ubs ag historical predecessors union bank of switzerland bank in winterthur toggenburger bank interhandel phillips & drew schr der m nchmeyer swiss bank corporation basler & z rcher bankverein basler handelsbank warburg dillon read s. g. warburg & co. dillon read & co. brinson partners o connor & associates paine webber inc. paine & webber jackson & curtis blyth eastman dillon & co. kidder peabody & co. mitchell hutchins union securities other companies mcdonald & co. current executives and directors axel a. weber chairman sergio ermotti ceo tom naratil markus u. diethelm john a. fraser ulrich k rner carsten kengeter alex wilmot sitwell robert mccann chi won yoon philip lofts j rg zeltner lukas g hwiler beatrice weder di mauro william g. parrett phil gramm former executives gary p. brinson john costas john cryan blair effron oswald gr bel marten hoekstra jerker johansson peter kurer ken moelis marcel ospel marcel rohner olivier sarkozy kaspar villiger robert wolf retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title prediction company & oldid 718882175 categories companies based in santa fe new mexicoubs navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 may 2016 at 05 30 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view