{"id":59112,"date":"2017-07-24T09:14:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T13:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59112"},"modified":"2017-07-24T09:14:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T13:14:07","slug":"hedge-fund-uses-algae-to-reap-21-return-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2017\/hedge-fund-uses-algae-to-reap-21-return-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Uses Algae to Reap 21% Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Hedge fund manager Desmond Lun\u2019s 21 percent average return over the last four years springs from an unlikely source &#8212; a petri dish of algae.   Lun, 37, is a new kind of quant, combining AI wizardry with old-school biology to trade futures. Although his Taaffeite Capital Management is small, Lun makes a big claim: His research into one of the natural world\u2019s most byzantine systems &#8212; the biological cell &#8212; has given him an edge in untangling the secrets of financial markets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-07-20\/hedge-fund-quant-posting-21-return-says-biology-is-secret-sauce\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge fund manager Desmond Lun\u2019s 21 percent average return over the last four years springs from an unlikely source &#8212; a petri dish of algae. Lun, 37, is a new kind of quant, combining AI wizardry with old-school biology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59113,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59112\/revisions\/59113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}