By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight Quantedge Capital Pte, the Singapore-based quant management company, has received some coverage this week as the firm has joined the small number of Asian hedge fund managers overseeing a billion dollars. The firm, run by Kah Shin and Chua Choong Tze and are to be congratulated […] Read more »
Top Quotations From Battle Of The Quants London
“An edge in analysis of social media is much more feasible than in analysis of news – there are only six traders globally who are successful trading off news analysis, ” Rob Passarella, DataSift. “There is a huge leap to move from getting interesting signals to a viable investment strategy,” Leigh Drogen, Estimize. On […] Read more »
Hedge Fund Returns Are Path Dependent – As 2011 Illustrates
One of the things that is attempted on this website is to look at market action to help explain, or comprehend hedge fund returns. For example, two years ago a commentary was distributed on the significance of the quality factor in explaining returns in 2009 (see this article), and the impact of high correlation this […] Read more »