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Ex-Man manager combines sustainable investing with AI/ML

Thursday, March 30, 2017

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Dr. Richard Bateson
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers:

Dr. Richard Bateson, quant fund manager and physicist, has recently registered his new fund management company with the UK's FCA. London-based Bateson Asset Management Limited (BAM), where he serves as managing director and chief investment officer, is for now running a managed account called the Lexicon program.

"The first program has been tested with my money prior to launch," he told Opalesque. "It is a financial futures 'commodity free' CTA doing intraday trading with quite a high Sharpe Ratio… Intraday trading machine learning is something I have been working on for many years going back to Man Group." Lexicon was launched in January and is up 1.7% YTD.

He is planning on launching another product next month, an ESG long/short equity program called Generation. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) refers to the three central factors in measuring the sustainability and ethical impact of an investment in a company or business.

Bateson held off launching Generation in January because the technology is still being completed. It was orig......................

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