Man Numeric sees quant credit funds as opportunity “to go against the grain” Submitted By Hugh Leask | 29/04/2021 - 10:27am Systematic hedge funds are increasingly well placed to tap into inefficiencies within credit assets – a market often seen as unworkable for most computer-based strategies, credit heads at Man Numeric say. Robert Lam, co-head of credit at Man Numeric, the Boston-based investment unit of London-listed hedge fund giant Man Group, said “99 per cent” of high yield assets are managed using traditional discretionary processes.