Vuk Vuković is the Chief Investment Officer and Founding Partner of Oraclum Capital, a New York–based hedge fund built on a breakthrough in network theory. The firm uses crowd intelligence and proprietary network analysis of social media bubbles to forecast weekly equity market movements. Oraclum trades options based on these signals, risking only 2% of capital per week, maintaining low volatility and low correlation with the S&P 500, and delivering annualized returns of 25%.
Vuković earned his PhD from the University of Oxford and his MSc from the London School of Economics. His research in political economy and network science, published across a dozen academic papers, has shaped the predictive models that power Oraclum’s investment strategy.
At BRIDGE Summit, Vuk Vuković will unpack practical look at how data science and behavioral analysis are reshaping investment decision-making and risk management.
Economic journalism has drifted into the realm of business headlines and stock tickers, leaving entire societies misunderstood. From China to the UAE, even Nobel laureates are found basing models on text-mined headlines rather than lived realities. The result is misread economies, misguided policies, and distorted public perceptions. This workshop challenges journalists, economists, and content creators to rethink how they interpret and communicate economic stories. How can reporters distinguish between “business news” and “economic understanding”? How can fieldwork, data analysis, and storytelling combine to produce coverage that captures social development as much as GDP growth? Participants will explore real examples of misrepresented economies, learn new techniques for translating complex data into human-centered narratives, and co-create frameworks for cross-audience reporting, from policymakers to the public. Methods: The session would pair short case studies with live group exercises on reframing misleading coverage. Objectives: • Unpack why economic reporting often fails to represent true economic and social dynamics. • Demonstrate how “text mining,” sentiment analysis, and secondhand data shape biased narratives. • Co-design story frameworks that translate economic events into clear, contextual reporting across multiple audiences. • Explore how accurate economic storytelling can shape trust, policy, and development.
This session bridges economics, geopolitics, and the mechanics of narrative in examining how storytelling shapes markets, public trust, and social behavior. Drawing on George Soros’s reflexivity and Robert Shiller’s narrative economics, we explore how viral beliefs influence everything from capital flows to voting patterns. In a world shaped more by tropes and emotions, not just data, how can a full-spectrum of leaders, from those in government to entrepreneurs, recognize, harness, and respond to stories that fuel action?
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