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Why quant giant D.E. Shaw seeks out academics, doctors, and veterans to work at the $60 billion hedge fund
The firm is known for recruiting talent from outside of finance to work at the long-running asset m…
Bradley Saacks
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Sports betting is the next frontier for Wall Street's smartest quants to conquer
Trading giant Susquehanna and other quants are diving into sports betting — making it harder for th…
Bradley Saacks
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A quant research leader from Two Sigma's vaunted 'techniques' squad is leaving for Cubist
Kan Huang was a leader in Two Sigma's vaunted machine-learning techniques group. He's joining Cubis…
Alex Morrell
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SEBI mulls measures to facilitate ease of doing business for ESG Rating Providers (ERPs)
Per the paper's proposal, ERPs won't be required to disclose ESG (environmental, social, and govern…
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Golden Oldies: The mutual fund schemes that have stood the test of market cycles over 20 years
According to a report by Value Research, ten mutual fund schemes have stood the test of time. Funds…
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An elite hedge fund slashed its Nvidia and Tesla bets last quarter — and boosted its GameStop stake
Renaissance Technologies, founded by the late Jim Simons, cuts its Tesla and Nvidia stakes while ra…
Theron Mohamed
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What's in a title? How hedge funds and their employees use the industry's lack of consistency to their advantage
Hedge fund titles have become a part of the industry's talent war. "It's extremely tough to know wh…
Bradley Saacks
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ExodusPoint led multistrategy hedge funds in September. Here's where rivals like Citadel, Millennium, and others stand.
On the heels of announcing new performance hurdles, ExodusPoint topped multimanager hedge fund peer…
Bradley Saacks,Alex Morrell
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Schonfeld is leading its peers a year after the $11.6 billion firm ended tie-up talks with Millennium. How the industry's biggest funds did in October.
Schonfeld had another strong month in October, outpacing rivals like Citadel and Millennium.
Bradley Saacks
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Mutual funds stress test: What it means for you
Over the past two years, several mid- and smallcap schemes have been launched by asset management c…
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A quant fund boss talked his mom into selling Nvidia at 60% of its current price. She won't let him forget it.
Jason Hsu thought Nvidia's rally couldn't last any longer, so talked his mom into selling the semic…
George Glover
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A legendary hedge fund exited its GameStop bet before the meme stock's 550% spike
Paul Tudor Jones' firm owned call and put options on GameStop stock in the fourth quarter of 2023, …
Theron Mohamed
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A NASA engineer paid for his wedding and honeymoon by betting cryptocurrency on his ability to pick stocks for a quant trading firm
The engineer, who is working on a mission to Jupiter, told Bloomberg his hobby "is more lucrative t…
Natasha Dailey
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A quant fund is looking to hire high-ranking Wall Street Bets members as traders - and says a 'refined taste for memes' will help candidates
Cindicator Capital wants to hire meme-savvy veterans of the Wall Street Bets subreddit for its sent…
Isabelle Lee
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Quant-investing pioneer Jim Simons predicts Warren Buffett's old-school approach will stay relevant — and lays out the 5 key principles he lives by
The former Cold War codebreaker and MIT math professor also discussed why his Renaissance Technolog…
Theron Mohamed
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Quant-investing pioneer Jim Simons predicts Warren Buffett's old-school approach will stay relevant — and lays out the 5 key principles he lives by
The former Cold War codebreaker and MIT math professor also discussed why his Renaissance Technolog…
Theron Mohamed
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Kotak Flexicap Fund: Too big to be flexible?
First, let us understand what a flexicap fund is. Flexicap funds are mutual funds that have the fle…
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The quant who left Citadel for Opendoor
Meet Daniel Morillo, the quant trader who ditched a lucrative career on Wall Street to be the CIO a…
Aaron Weinman
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Gartner predicts 75% of VCs will be using AI instead of their ‘gut feel’ to make decisions by 2025 — a path that companies are already discovering
A person’s ‘gut feel’ is often the compass for making decisions. However, when it comes to investin…