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Quant investing

  • Sunday, 2 November, 2025
    London becomes ‘quant’ powerhouse as traders rake in revenues

    A pipeline of skilled graduates is helping the UK build out its expertise in algorithmic trading

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  • Wednesday, 22 October, 2025
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    Man Group has a decision to make: Focus on its quant roots or diversify

  • Friday, 17 October, 2025
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    Quadrature Capital had a very good 2024

  • Monday, 29 September, 2025
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  • Wednesday, 24 September, 2025
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    Falling share price, investor withdrawals and lacklustre performance present a strategic dilemma for Man Group

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  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
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    Most VC firms are not yet ditching human experience, but a few pioneers are about to go all in on quant trading

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  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
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    Man Group orders quants back to office five days a week

    Hedge fund tightens flexible working after period of poor performance for its systematic investing arm AHL

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  • Wednesday, 4 June, 2025
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    After years of scepticism, co-founder of AQR has embraced AI when determining investment strategies

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  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
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    Baiont’s Feng Ji: Quant managers who don’t adopt AI will be eliminated by the market

    The founder of one of China’s top-performing quant funds explains how his team of young computer scientists are using machine learning to disrupt the sector

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  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
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    Sharp market reversals have wrongfooted many computer-driven traders betting on market trends

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  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
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    Computer-driven asset manager’s institutional equity strategy down 8% in April

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  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
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    RIP quant-father Barr Rosenberg

    The ‘accountant of risk’ has passed away

  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
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    People, pay your website designers more

  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2025
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    Point72 founder says drop that wiped almost $600bn from Nvidia shares was prompted by misinformation

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  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
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    Two Sigma founders step down as co-CEOs after years of acrimony

    Hedge fund behemoth’s founders had recently struggled to agree on strategy and succession plans

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  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
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  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
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    Jim Simons, founder of pioneering quant fund Renaissance, dies

    Mathematician and former Cold War codebreaker established one of Wall Street’s most successful hedge funds

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  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
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    Jane Street gets into mobile gaming

    Could Figgie be Pit the younger?

  • Sunday, 5 May, 2024
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    Michael Platt’s BlueCrest prepares to expand trading teams

    Secretive family office in late-stage talks with 30 portfolio managers after several years of outperformance

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  • Wednesday, 1 May, 2024
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  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
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  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    China’s quant funds count the cost of regulatory clampdown

    Executives fear end of outsized returns after Beijing targets small cap trading strategies

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  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
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    The trend has been a friend. Will it stay that way?

  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
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    The AQR head on passive investing, private equity, tail insurance, trend-following and much more

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