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The explosive growth of quant investing is paving the way for 'super...
The top 20 biggest hedge fund managers have a higher proportion of the industry's assets than they did five years ago, according to a new study from Barclays.The biggest reason for the growth has been...
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Hedge funds are watching a key lawsuit involving LinkedIn to see if they can...
Web scraping has become integral to many hedge funds' data-collection processes, with a recent research report finding that one out of every 20 web-page visits in 2018 came from a scraping bot run by a...
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I've talked to loads of hedge funds about their performance woes and there's...
Junta Nakai has spent his career on Wall Street and in financial technology. In this op-ed, Nakai argues that Microsoft Excel, which has been used by the investment community for years, can no longer...
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A startup that scrapes the web for banks and hedge funds just raised money...
Alternative data startup Thinknum raised $12 million in a series A round from investors including Green Visor Capital, which counts ex-Visa CEO Joe Saunders as a partner.Thinknum scrapes websites, or...
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Michael Gelband's hedge fund ExodusPoint has added a trio of former Carlson...
ExodusPoint, which set a record for the biggest hedge fund launch ever last year with $8 billion in seed capital, has brought on Ivan Ross, the former head of fixed income at Carlson Capital, to run a...
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I spent a day in one of America's richest cities, a town an hour from New...
Greenwich is a town on Connecticut's coast, an hour outside of New York City.In its 2019 ranking, Bloomberg ranked Old Greenwich as one of the wealthiest towns in the US.The town is home to several...
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Meet the London currency analyst who moonlights as a wellness guru to Wall...
Bilal Hafeez says he's tapped into a lifestyle shift happening in the financial industry.The London-based Nomura currency analyst sends wellness newsletters — tips and tricks for shaping up, eating...
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Bed Bath & Beyond explodes by more than 25% after activist investors attack...
Three activist hedge funds have launched a proxy contest against Bed Bath & Beyond.The hedge funds seek to replace CEO Steven Temares and the company's board.Shares of the home-furnishings retailer...
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Investors are hot on hedge funds again, but old-school stock pickers are...
Despite coming off one of the worst performing years on record, hedge funds are enjoying renewed interest from investors, who believe there is a market slowdown coming, a JPMorgan survey finds.But the...
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Inside the Chicago hedge fund turf war between billionaire Ken Griffin and...
A big brother-little brother rivalry between Chicago-based hedge funds Citadel and Balyasny Asset Management has heated up, sources at both hedge funds say, as the firms fight for talent.Several...
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Silicon Valley has made top data-science talent too expensive for many hedge...
Hedge funds have always been able to recruit analysts and traditional stock-picking portfolio managers from investment banks but have run into trouble persuading coders and data scientists to choose...
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Bank of America scoured hundreds of mutual funds with $1.5 trillion in assets...
Price swings in the stock market are usually wider during earnings season, providing an opportunity for stock pickers to profit from those moves. Bank of America Merrill Lynch has identified seven...
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Investors are jumping back into hedge funds as they prepare for a stock...
With growing concerns over a coming recession, investors are looking past hedge funds' disappointing 2018 and padding their portfolios this year.Morgan Creek Capital Management CEO Mark Yusko, who...
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Bank of America has discovered a simple trade that’s tripled the market's...
Being a contrarian can pay off in the stock market, because it often involves finding unloved companies whose upsides are underappreciated.Bank of America Merrill Lynch has taken its analysis on the...
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David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital is bouncing back from a disastrous 2018...
Greenlight Capital posted first quarter returns of 11%, according to an investor letter seen by Business Insider.The letter cites five long positions and three shorts, including one on Tesla, that are...
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Balyasny loses a quant portfolio manager as the manager gets its footing...
One of Dmitry Balyasny's quants, Paul Chambers, is leaving the firm for his old fund, Man Group, less than two years after joining, sources tell Business Insider.Chambers, who joined the manager at the...
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A new machine-learning tool used by Citadel and Balyasny to rank their...
Communications analytics company Behavox is rolling out Broker Vote, a machine-learning tool that ranks hedge funds' relationships with banks and brokers, at the end of May.The program tracks the...
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Inside the hellacious hedge fund money-raising environment, where 'even the...
New hedge fund launches are at their lowest levels in more than a decade, and funds big and small are struggling to grow their assets. Hedge funds now have to get creative to raise money. They're doing...
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Billionaire Steven Schonfeld poaches a top quant from Glenn Dubin's Engineers...
Steven Schonfeld's hedge fund Schonfeld Strategic Advisors recruited a top quant from Engineers Gate, Ricky Shi, to run a new quant fund, sources tell Business Insider.Schonfeld's fund has expanded...
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These 9 hedge fund managers made a wild amount of money in 2018
The top hedge-fund managers hauled in major paydays in 2018, according to Institutional Investor's annual "Rich List."These fund managers were big winners despite the fact that a majority of hedge...
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