Tag Archives: quant funds
Inside Mega Hedge Funds: Strategy Shifts, Rebalancing, and Adjustments in 2026:
(HedgeCo.Net) The biggest story inside the U.S. hedge fund industry today is not a single blockbuster trade or quarterly return number. It is a structural repositioning underway at the largest hedge funds—firms managing tens or hundreds of billions of dollars that now dominate global […]
Point72 at a Strategic Inflection Point — Performance, Reorganization, and Expanding Horizons in 2026:
(HedgeCo.Net) Point72 Asset Management, the multi-strategy hedge fund founded and led by billionaire investor Steven A. Cohen, is generating headlines across the alternative investment landscape as it navigates a dynamic market environment, reinforces its structural foundation, and pursues opportunities inside […]
The January Scorecard Is In — “Platform Hedge Funds” Are Winning Big:
(HedgeCo.Net) In early 2026, the most important trend at the largest U.S. hedge funds isn’t a single trade or a single market call. It’s the platform effect — the ability to generate steady returns across many teams, instruments, and time horizons while […]
Why the Biggest Hedge Funds Are Doubling Down on “Machine-Driven Scale”
(HedgeCo.Net) If 2025 was the year allocators returned to hedge funds, 2026 is shaping up as the year they re-rank which hedge funds deserve the most capital. The biggest differentiator: whether a firm can turn data, computing, and systematic process into a […]
AI and Quant Domination: The New Frontier in Hedge Funds
New breakthroughs in AI and automation are reshaping the competitive landscape for hedge funds, enabling smaller firms and new entrants to compete with legacy players. (Hedgeco.Net) In 2025, artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer novelty — it’s becoming central to […]
“Systematic Funds in the Red: Challenges Mount for Quantitative Hedge Funds
(HedgeCo.Net) Systematic hedge funds—those that rely largely on quantitative models, algorithms, and market signals rather than fundamental analysis—are facing a rough patch as the market enters the final quarter of 2025. According to a recent Goldman Sachs client note, these […]
AI Drives Surge in WorldQuant’s International Quant Championship — And Its Talent Pipeline
WorldQuant, the quant asset manager spun out of Millennium, saw an explosion in interest in its annual International Quant Championship (IQC) — participation surged to 80,000 university entrants, doubling last year’s figure. AI is credited as the accelerant: advances in […]
Hedge fund head says times right for global macro
Reuters – In a period when volatile markets battered most hedge funds, global macro funds are proving their worth, Graham Capital Chairman Kenneth Tropin told Reuters. During one of the hedge fund industry’s worst years, Graham delivered gains of up […]
Buffetted `Quants` Are Still In Demand
Javno – Last week, New York University and Carnegie Mellon sent a new class of math whizzes out into a profession that is both blamed for the financial collapse and charged with preventing it happening again. Many of these so-called […]