Pennsylvania SERS creates new multi-strategy asset class to replace hedge fund asset class

At its March 8 meeting, the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System board voted to create a multi-strategy asset class that [Read More]
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AI/Machine learning – Data sets, sources and quality

“Application of machine learning is still in its infancy,” says Napoleon Hernandez, chief data scientist and chief operating officer of [Read More]
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Sightings…

  Michelle McCloskey, president of FRM, has been given an additional role at Man. As president of Man Americas, she [Read More]
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DB: 79% of surveyed institutional investors allocate to systematic strategies

  Deutsche Bank’s 15th Annual Alternative Investment Survey of 420 institutional respondents found the growing attraction of quantitative investing as [Read More]
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Benchmarks: Hedge funds climb 1.0% in February….India funds soar 9.46% YTD

  The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index posted a 1.02% gain in February, the eleventh monthly gain in the trailing [Read More]
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