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The Revolutionary Way Of Using Artificial Intelligence In Hedge Funds
The integration of artificial intelligence and the financial industry has always been a match made in heaven—high volumes, the quantitative aspect of finances, need for expediency and accuracy are ideal for the unique skill-set of AI. But, can it impact the high-risk, high-return world of hedge funds? Several companies think so. More here.
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More Hedge Funds Using AI, Machine Learning
The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning is rapidly becoming widespread among hedge fund managers, if a recent poll by industry data firm BarclayHedge any indication. Fifty-six percent of the survey’s respondents said they used AI or machine learning in their investment processes. Just 20 percent had said the same in a BarclayHedge poll last August. […]
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New Hedge Funds Next Year Will Embrace High Tech
The hedge fund industry may be getting one step closer to its robot-guided future. Seventy percent of new hedge funds that will start next year will include investment processes that use computer models, including artificial intelligence and machine-learning technologies, according to a prediction in a Deloitte report released Thursday. That’s a jump from 47 percent in […]
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How AI Will Invade Every Corner of Wall Street
Machine learning, with its prowess in producing insights from data, is poised to have a hand in 99 percent of investing, CEO says. It was AI versus Warren Buffett. The artificial intelligence was unleashed by Winton, the London hedge fund, to test an old principle of the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chairman with a view to trading […]
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The Massive Hedge Fund Betting on AI
Initially wary of the technology, Man Group was soon persuaded by the returns from algorithm-centric funds. As chief executive officer of one of the world’s largest hedge funds, Luke Ellis prides himself on a healthy appetite for risk. “My job,” he says, “is to not blink.” About five years ago, he did, though—in a big […]
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The Hot New Hedge Fund Flavor Is ‘Quantamental’
Fundamental and quantitative investing used to be the hedge-fund versions of oil and water: They didn’t mix. Those in the fundamental camp do analysis the old-fashioned way, evaluating investments based on research and instinct, with humans calling the shots. Quantitative money managers turn to sophisticated computer algorithms that search mountains of data for hidden signals […]
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Andurand hedge fund’s $100 oil bet stands out from the herd
Hedge fund manager Pierre Andurand’s bet that oil will return to $100 a barrel has caught the attention of an industry more accustomed to energy executives warning they must prepare their companies to survive with prices less than half that level. It is a call that pitches the French-born trader against some of the biggest […]
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High-tech advances entice new wave of scientists and programmers to financial markets
A host of emerging investment managers imbued with a solid grounding in science and algorithms represent the cutting edge of disruption on Wall Street. “We’re the new generation,” says Shalin Madan, chief investment officer of Bodhi Tree Asset Management, which he set up after 20 years of investing in hedge funds himself. After seeing how […]
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Investors turn to property, infrastructure, private equity and hedge funds
The worldwide shift into alternative assets gathered pace in 2016 as more institutional investors turned to property, infrastructure, private equity and hedge funds in search of better returns. The worldwide shift into alternative assets gathered pace in 2016 as more institutional investors turned to property, infrastructure, private equity and hedge funds in search of better […]
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Hedge funds turn from Opec friend to adversary in oil market
Traders have built up short positions and may yet force cartel to make bigger cuts. Opec set out to woo some of the biggest oil hedge funds in the industry at the turn of the year, holding private meetings where it laid out plans to cut crude supplies in an attempt to get prices back towards […]
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