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Matthias Knab, Opalesque:

Quantitative investing has been experiencing a resurgence of interest among investors in alternative investments -fueled by big data, ever-more sophisticated algorithms and increasingly efficient technologies. Given investors' interest in quantitative investment funds, the New York Hedge Fund Roundtable recently looked at how the alternative investment community views the strategy compared to the way it looks at fundamental investing.

New York Hedge Fund Roundtable members had the opportunity to weigh in on this topic both at the Roundtable's June event, as well as through an online electronic poll.

"An Evening of Quantitative and Fundamental Investing," was the topic of the New York Hedge Fund Roundtable's June event, where George Hall, the founder, CEO and chief investment officer of Clinton Group, a hedge fund firm with $2.9 billion in assets under management, weighed in on the topic. "Figuring out the right way to hedge is pretty tricky and that's what the computer does well," Hall told event attendees. "In our view, the quant model is really good at making a lot of best and identifying attractive stocks… the goal of quant investing is to use statistics and mathematics to get there a little bit faster than the fundamental guys," he said.

Roundtable members believe that quantitative investing is currently more appealing than fundamental investing. Asked which strategy they believe is most appealing right now, 92% of survey respo......................

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