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October 5, 2019

Technology : Trust – the real questions finance firms ask cloud providers

The risks in employing cloud providers are still not settled, despite its value to data scientists. Dan Barnes.

Cloud computing providers should not be too smart if they want to gain the confidence of their users, according to industry practitioners, despite the utility’s obvious advantage. Continue reading “Technology : Trust – the real questions finance firms ask cloud providers”

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Factor investing : Factors prove fundamental to bond investment

Research is indicating factors are the driver for bond fund manager outperformance, even outside of factor investing mandates. By Lynn Strongin Dodds

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October 5, 2019October 5, 2019

Quant investing : Have quants really underperformed?

Headlines knocking the quantitative investment industry have not told the whole truth, writes Gill Wadsworth.

‘Crappy’; this is the term quant manager AQR’s chief executive Cliff Asness used to describe his time investing in quants at the back end of 2018 and into early 2019. Continue reading “Quant investing : Have quants really underperformed?”