Human Stock Pickers At Hedge Funds Are Actually Beating Their Computer Competition So Far This Year

(CNBC) Before computers completely take over the hedge-fund industry, they need to overcome one tiny obstacle: investment returns. In the first half of the year, computer-generated strategies, or what they call in the business, systematic strategies, returned 3.17 percent, according to data by Preqin. That compares with the more-traditional discretionary strategy, which returned almost double that, with gains of 5.99 percent. Those results are net of fees.

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