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New Swiss asset manager combines systematic and discretionary trading, and AI

Monday, December 07, 2015

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Pendo S. Löfgren
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers:

Founded in February 2015, BrightKey Strategies is a new high-alpha asset management company that develops quantitative investment strategies. Located in Zug, Switzerland, it was formed by Pendo S. Löfgren, previously Head of Research of the Arnova Fund SP One, and Dr. Jason A.S. Freeman. Dr. Freeman is one of the founder investors in Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company which counts Larry Page and Eric Schmidt of Google, as well as the film director James Cameron, amongst its investors and advisors.

Mr. Löfgren, during his time at Arnova, founded and developed the quantitative strategies there and achieved a return of 885.70% over 11 years, including 42.5% in 2008. Previously, he was an independent trader after several years of running his own programming consultancy company.

"I started trading with a non-finance/banking background, which I believe is an advantage," Löfgren told Opalesque. "I founded BrightKey with Dr. Jason Freeman, who is in a similar situation as he made his money in the Internet marketing businesses. He has a PhD in neural networks and Artificial Intelligence and used his deep knowledge in this field to find profitable patterns in large datasets."

Freeman had been a long-time client of Löfgren at Arnova. He......................

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