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  • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
    Hedge funds
    Hedge fund Winton’s assets plunge $26bn from peak after 2020 rout

    David Harding’s firm was among biggest hedge funds but suffered in coronavirus crisis

  • Saturday, 5 December, 2020
    Artificial intelligence
    Robo-surveillance shifts tone of CEO earnings calls

    Trading algorithms leave a mark with deeper focus on the spoken word

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    WorldQuant enjoying banner year despite $200m vaccine shake-up hit

    Quant fund is up nearly 20 per cent in an otherwise bleak year for computer-led funds

  • Tuesday, 3 November, 2020
    Markets InsightRobin Wigglesworth
    A terrible, horrible, no-good year for quants

    Many popular quant strategies are struggling but to varying degrees we are all quants now

  • Monday, 2 November, 2020
    Hedge funds
    Hedge fund GSA moves low-cost fund into high-fee markets

    Move poses challenge to rivals after GSA helped push down industry fees

  • Monday, 7 September, 2020
    Hedge funds
    AI hedge fund Voleon suffers in choppy markets

    High-performing quant funds lose lustre in turbulent year

  • Monday, 27 April, 2020
    Fund management
    Alternative risk premia funds fail to live up to expectations

    Popular funds’ performance woes compounded by coronavirus market sell-off

  • Monday, 6 April, 2020
    News in-depthHedge funds
    Quant pioneer Winton suffers in coronavirus-driven sell-off

    Lighter reliance on trend-following proves costly for London-based funds group

  • Tuesday, 24 March, 2020
    News in-depth
    Glitchy coronavirus markets cause quant funds to misfire

    Renaissance, Two Sigma and DE Shaw suffer unusual setbacks

  • Promoted Content
  • Monday, 9 March, 2020
    Students flock to study quant finance in record numbers

    Enrollees from India and China make up a third of intake

  • Tuesday, 25 February, 2020
    News in-depthMan Group PLC
    A decade on, did Man Group’s $1.6bn bet on GLG pay off?

    The deal created a hedge fund giant but the transformation did not go as planned

  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2020
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    Stockpickers turn to big data to arrest decline

    Many fund managers are embracing machine learning and other technologies to improve their performance

  • Friday, 17 January, 2020
    News in-depthFund management
    Systematic funds suffer ‘quant winter’

    Automated investing is on the rise, but many funds are struggling to meet expectations

  • Friday, 10 January, 2020
    Citadel Securities sues rival over alleged trading strategy leak

    Financial group says GSA induced researcher to supply confidential information

  • Friday, 29 November, 2019
    On Wall StreetRobin Wigglesworth
    Stability has destabilised the macro hedge fund

    Volatile markets may return but the industry has been forced to adapt

  • Thursday, 14 November, 2019
    Sovereign bonds
    Fingers point at hedge funds after Japan bond sell-off

    Trend-following investors switched bets after price crossed key threshold

  • Monday, 4 November, 2019
    Special ReportFTfm: Smart Beta
    Mystery is part and particle of smart beta

    Trying to understand how funds’ factors work is as baffling as quantum theory

  • Friday, 18 October, 2019
    News in-depth
    Meet the Buffett bot: quant fund tries to crack the ‘value’ code

    Computer-powered Havelock is battling the market’s shrinking attention span

  • Thursday, 17 October, 2019
    News in-depth
    Hedge funds are happy to let the machines take over

    Some claim computers are getting better at finding profitable patterns in market data

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2019
    FTfmRobert Pozen
    Will bots replace humans in active equity investment?

    Machine learning will implement quant analysis to find the right stocks

  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2019
    Tail RiskRobin Wigglesworth
    Braced for aftershocks following momentum sell-off

    Drop in hot stocks provided long-needed boost to other investment trends

  • Thursday, 8 August, 2019
    Markets volatility
    Automated selling exacerbates US market swings

    Surge in computer-driven strategies comes at crucial time for stock market

  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2019
    Man Group PLC
    Quant strategies fuel investment gains at Man Group

    Hedge fund group suffers net outflows as $1.1bn withdrawn in six months to June

  • Friday, 26 July, 2019
    News in-depth
    Quants seek human touch in reboot of investing strategy

    Traditional traders are being hired as computer-powered techniques lose their edge

  • Monday, 17 June, 2019
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    Deutsche’s ‘bad bank’, Trump’s tariffs, Hong Kong

    Deutsche Bank prepares a deep overhaul of its trading operations

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