These quants now represent 17% of the total hedge fund industry…. Good for about $300 Billion.
Category: Managed Futures
19
Jun
2017
Who Will Win the Managed Futures Pinnacle Awards?
Before the winners are selected from the many Pinnacle award categories, we got to wondering how RCM would choose the winners. Who would win in each of the categories and why? Well as it turns out, our new database just so happens to assign a ranking to each manager based on our own proprietary system – which makes the decision purely systematic!
12
Jun
2017
The Fed’s No Volatility Mandate
Open Interest has nearly doubled since this boring rate cycle began at the end of 2015/beginning of 2016.
08
Jun
2017
Energy and Oil Quants – Who Are They?
How do these pros do it? What do they think of OPEC and quants and all the rest?
01
Jun
2017
Asset Class Scoreboard May
Another month, another new all-time high in the U.S. stock market.
30
May
2017
Quants Run Wall St. Now?
We were sort of confused when we noticed the Wall Street Journal is doing an entire series on what they’re calling “the quants,” including the lead article
23
May
2017
Are Stocks as Consistent as they appear to be?
What people are more interested in when talking about consistency, in our experience, is not how many days were down over 1%, it’s what percent of the time an investment is positive versus negative.
17
May
2017
The Top Managed Futures Managers of April
For those that are looking for the top performers of the month, ignoring risk metrics, RCM’s due diligence, and exclusively sort by returns only, these are the Top 10 programs in April.
11
May
2017
Managed Futures Rankings
What do you consider to be the most essential characteristic of an alternative investment? Non-correlation to stocks? Risk Control? Liquidity? To different investors, each of these attributes are prioritized differently. It’s what makes alternative investments so appealing and so confusing at the same time. Having all the research in the world doesn’t count for much […]
08
May
2017
Alternative Investments: Beyond the Buzz Words
According to findings from recent research conducted by InvestmentNews, 83% of clients have expressed some level of interest in alternative investments.
