Hedge funds are more in demand than ever. For the second year in a row, hedge funds — the group of firms including Citadel, Millennium, D.E. Shaw, and Bridgewater — are the most sought-after asset ...

The PGIM Quant Solutions Small-Cap Value Fund underperformed its benchmark, the Russell 2000 Value Index, on a gross basis during the month of January. Read more here.

Discover how quantitative analysts, or quants, use advanced mathematical models to predict market trends and identify lucrative investment opportunities.

An Indian broker reacts while trading at a stock brokerage firm in Mumbai, January 22, 2008. Shares from Sydney to London sank for a second day on Tuesday, dragging commodity prices with them and ...

The apparent free fall of the some of the world’s most respected quant shops in August has tarnished a whole section of the hedge fund industry. But is quant as an investment strategy to blame? A ...

Former Macquarie Group Ltd quantitative hedge fund chief Nick Bird is having a second go at running a Europe-focused vehicle.

The rise of so-called quantitative funds—mutual funds run by algorithms and computer models—has led investors to ask: Are machines better than humans at delivering consistently good investment returns ...

Jeffrey O’Connor, U.S. head of equity market structure at dark-pool operator Liquidnet, says quant funds, market makers and the retail crowd have been driving much of the inflows into stocks lately, ...

“I CALL IT the revenge of the nerds,” says Andrew Lo, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and director of the university’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering. Lo is referring to ...

Chinese quantitative hedge funds are stepping up efforts to hire science and engineering students in the US affected by President Donald Trump’s university funding cuts and tighter visa policies.

Every time Alex publishes a story, you’ll get an alert straight to your inbox! Enter your email By clicking “Sign up”, you agree to receive emails from Business ...