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New Managers May 2015

PERSPECTIVES: Views and perspectives relevant to emerging fund managers

 

Asset management industry will be mainly quantitative going forward

Arnaud Chretien

"When we look at the road ahead, we believe that the asset management industry will be mainly quantitative," said Arnaud Chretien, co-founder and CIO of Aequam Capital, a Paris-based systematic fund manager founded in 2010, in a recent Opalesque TV interview. "We strongly believe that Aequam is already well-positioned to offer innovation with its research and great performances over the long term."

Chretien is not the only Frenchman to believe in quantitative investing. Man Group's Emmanuel Roman told delegates at the National Association of Pension Funds in March that automation and computerisation are creating "a brave new world" for the asset management market, reported the Financial Times. He said: "When passive investment started, no one believed it would last, but the reality is that, every single year, more money is going into passive [investing]. Quant is going to be similar. Slowly, but surely, more money will be managed by computer. [They] are cheaper, they are faster and the client is better off." (full article by Benedicte Gravrand here).

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