AlphaQuest, the roughly 25-year-old quantitative hedge fund that recently added “Alpha” to its name, is calling it quits ...

Goldman Sachs analysts updated their hedge fund VIP list—the 50 stocks that most frequently appear in the top 10 holdings of fundamental funds—on Thursday, adding 16 new names amid turnover for the ...

Hedge funds are more in demand than ever. For the second year in a row, hedge funds — the group of firms including Citadel, Millennium, D.E. Shaw, and Bridgewater — are the most sought-after asset ...

Goldman Sachs analysts updated their basket of 20 S&P 500 stocks with the most concentrated hedge fund ownership on Thursday, adding eight new names to a list that was topped by Incyte (INCY).

The apparent free fall of the some of the world’s most respected quant shops in August has tarnished a whole section of the hedge fund industry. But is quant as an investment strategy to blame? A ...

The rise of so-called quantitative funds—mutual funds run by algorithms and computer models—has led investors to ask: Are machines better than humans at delivering consistently good investment returns ...

Jeffrey O’Connor, U.S. head of equity market structure at dark-pool operator Liquidnet, says quant funds, market makers and the retail crowd have been driving much of the inflows into stocks lately, ...

“I CALL IT the revenge of the nerds,” says Andrew Lo, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and director of the university’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering. Lo is referring to ...

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