| Investors may be fleeing hedge funds in droves but they are still allocating money to technology-driven strategies, despite more than a year of lacklustre performance. The move suggests investors are looking to position themselves for increased market swings or a possible crash as “quants”, which use computer algorithms to predict market moves, are not correlated to other strategies.
The number of institutional investors who allocated funds to the most popular sub-strategy of quant known as commodity-trading advisers, or CTAs, hit a record of 1,067 in 2015, an addition of 50 from the previous year, according to the data provider Preqin...............................................Full Article: Source
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