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Leaked memo: Billionaire Steve Cohen is hiring a former PDT executive who...
Cubist, the quant unit of Steve Cohen's Point72, has hired Denis Dancanet as its new head.Dancanet worked as a quant and executive for Morgan Stanley and PDT and founded a jet-propulsion technology...
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Here are the 8 'long-lasting implications' of the pandemic hedge-fund...
Hedge-fund billionaire Seth Klarman, in a recent letter to investors, laid out eight "lasting" changes that could come from the pandemic, ranking them in order of most likely to least likely.Some of...
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Billionaire Seth Klarman says Fed aid 'infantilized' investors and decoupled...
The Federal Reserve's emergency relief efforts are driving a "surreal" stock rally as prices decouple from fundamentals, Seth Klarman, the manager of the hedge fund Baupost Group, said in a letter seen...
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Quant billionaire Cliff Asness breaks down the market landscape after...
AQR's Cliff Asness tells Corey Hoffstein of Newfound Research that value stocks are even cheaper than during the tech bubble right now.Despite the value factor's consistent underperformance recently,...
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POWER PLAYERS: Meet the 24 quants driving the future of hedge funds, from...
Quants have gone from a niche practice to a dominant player — the largest and most important hedge funds in the world are heavily influenced by, or completely committed to, computer-run strategies.The...
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7 big-name hedge funds that are tanking this year as credit and quant...
After a tumultuous start to the year, many big-name managers — and the markets overall — have gotten back in the black.Still, despite the markets' rally on the backs of unprecedented monetary and...
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One hedge fund reportedly gained 30% this year by following stocks popular on...
Sender Company & Painters, a volatility hedge fund led by Adam Sender, has gained 30% this year thanks to bets for and against stocks popular on Robinhood, Bloomberg's Sonali Basak reported...
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Hedge funds are using these 10 alt-data sources to gain an investing edge and...
With companies revising their forecasts, and governments scrambling to put out up-to-date statistics, more investors are turning to alternative data to gauge the impact of the coronavirus. The top...
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THE TRUE TIGER KING: Inside the sprawling web of billionaire Julian...
Julian Robertson's network is one of the most sprawling in any industry — the billionaire has seeded dozens of hedge funds, many of which have had their own spin-offs, creating a web of hundreds of...
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'I'd rather turn them into robo cops': Execs from Man Group, Bridgewater, and...
"Quantamental" is gaining hype on Wall Street. It's a type of investing strategy that tries to blend the best of quant funds and fundamental analysis.Bringing the two disciplines together is a feat in...
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Billionaire Dan Loeb lays out his strategy shift to focus on 'quality'...
Billionaire Dan Loeb's Third Point has changed with markets over its 25-year history, Loeb wrote in a letter to investors Thursday.The current environment requires quality to be an "essential" screen...
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3 charts track the epic poaching war between top hedge funds and Big Tech,...
As hedge funds have become sophisticated, their talent needs have evolved — and top managers now are searching out people with engineering abilities or data science skills.This has put managers in...
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$34 billion Citadel is dominating 2020. Here's a look at how it's...
Citadel's flagship Wellington fund is up more than 16% through July, and its standalone Global Fixed Income fund is up nearly 12% over the same time frame, sources tell Business Insider.Ken Griffin's...
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$34 billion Citadel poaches a rising star from billionaire Lee Ainslie's...
A top lieutenant of billionaire Lee Ainslie is joining Ken Griffin's Citadel in September, sources tell Business Insider.Ben Bologna, who was named to Forbes' 30 under 30 finance list in 2018, is...
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Bank of America shares a simple stock-trading strategy with a track record of...
Savita Subramanian, the head of US equity and quantitative strategy for Bank of America, says betting against the top picks of hedge funds can be a surprisingly profitable tactic.She said that betting...
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How to pitch Point72, Bridgewater, and other big names on buying new data...
The alternative data industry, which sells the unique datasets used by investors to gain an edge, has seen a boom in recent months due to the coronavirus pandemic.Business Insider profiled seven...
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The head of investment research at the world's largest hedge fund says most...
Bridgewater's Karen Karniol-Tambour told Bloomberg on Thursday that the "new era" of economic policy is the coordination of monetary and fiscal policy. Changes in interest rates and quantitative...
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Hedge funds are reportedly shorting the dollar as fears rise over its status...
Hedge funds are net short against the dollar for the first since May 2018 amid extreme weakness, Bloomberg reported Monday. The greenback has fallen about 6% against the euro alone since the start of...
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An investor whose fund returned 4,144% in the first quarter explains why...
Mark Spitznagel, the chief of Universa Investments, saw his fund return 4,144% in the first quarter.He explained to CNBC on Monday why tail-risk hedging is generally a "costly and bad...
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THE GATEKEEPERS: 12 top headhunting firms to know if you want to land a...
Competition among private equity firms and hedge funds for the best young talent on Wall Street is fierce.Many buy-side shops rely on specialized headhunting firms to help them identify and hire the...
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