Quants Think Like Amateurs In World’s Wildest Stock Market
As quants adapt their models to a Chinese market where mom-and-pop investors drive more than 80% of trades, they’re coming up with clever ways to predict where the nation’s so-called dumb money is headed.
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Q&A: Ken Miranda Pursues Growth For Cornell's Endowment
This past July, Kenneth Miranda became Cornell’s chief investment officer. He oversees the university’s $6 billion portfolio, following 16 years as director of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF)...
Capital Fund Management Names Ex-Altemis CEO Schupp As North American Chief
Schupp will be responsible for client coverage and business development activities, according to a statement. He will be based in New York and report to Philippe Jordan, Capital Fund Management’s president. Pensions & Investments first reported the hire.
Have Endowments Adopted The Yale Model?
With limited data and only general information about their actual allocations, it can be difficult to identify the causes of the wide dispersion in the returns of endowments in 2016. Note the large s...
Piotr Kawala best young analyst by Parkiet and ZMiD
Piotr Kawala, Macromoney macroeconomic analyst, was awarded as Young Star of the Polish financial market in the category best analyst by Parkiet, the most popular Polish financial newspaper, and ZMiD, the Polish association of brokers and investment advisors.
Endowment Sees First Negative Return In Seven Years
Bowdoin’s endowment generated an investment return of -1.4 percent in fiscal year (FY) 2016, a marked drop from last year’s 14.4 percent increase. According to Cambridge Associates, a firm that track...
MPI Cautions Institutional Investors Over Rush To Exit Hedge Fund Investments
Institutional investors should undertake a quantitative analysis of their hedge fund investments’ long-term contribution to overall portfolio efficiency, rather than basing their asset allocation strategies on a short-term comparison with equity benchmarks. read more
Machines Beat Humans in Hedge Fund Quest to Time Market Bottom
Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world....
Activists May Be Less Myopic Than Their Reputation Suggests
Are activist investors short-term traders or in it for the long term? It is the question of the moment as nearly $200 billion has poured into the coffers of activists with names like Icahn, Ackman and Peltz, among others. Last year, as a group they put some 200 companies in their cross hairs and replaced 19 chief executives, according to the law firm Sidley Austin, putting pressure on virtually every board in the country to pay attention to this vocal class of shareholders. If you listen to C.E.O.s and politicians on the stump these days, you would get the sense...