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  •  Why Hedge Funds Are Turning To PhDs Again. Financial News, August 29, 2024. https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/why-hedge-funds-are-turning-to-phds-again-b35b523b?mod=hp_LATEST


  • Acadian Asset Management CEO Focused On Systematic Credit, Women In The Quant Space. Pension & Investments, August 14, 2024. https://www.pionline.com/money-management/acadian-asset-management-ceo-building-out-systematic-credit-focused-women-quant?utm_source=p-i-breaking-news-alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20240814&utm_content=hero-headline&CSAuthResp=1723644213491%3A0%3A193217%3A0%3A24%3Asuccess%3AD8CB1353D45B830733F2BBB33021A7B2#cci_r=


  • AI Vs. Financial Analysts: Who Is Better At Predicting Earnings Of Public Companies? The Wall Street Journal, August 2, 2024. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-financial-analysts-earnings-predictions-0b87cd03?mod=tech_lead_story


  • Six Quant Finance Pioneers Walk Into A Bar, And No One Has A Stock Tip. Bloomberg, May 31, 2024. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-31/six-quant-finance-pioneers-walk-into-the-odeon-bar-and-no-one-has-a-stock-tip?srnd=homepage-americas&sref=UEnV8aI6


  • Millennium Covets Citadel-Size Commodities Gains, Just Not The Risk. Bloomberg, May 20, 2024. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-20/izzy-englander-s-hedge-fund-millennium-wants-to-rival-citadel-in-commodities?srnd=homepage-americas&sref=UEnV8aI6


  • How Did Jim Simons’s Firm Make $100 Billion? He Told His Secrets To Our Reporter. The Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2024. https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/how-did-jim-simonss-firm-make-100-billion-he-told-his-secrets-to-our-reporter-f7b335f9


  • High-Tech Trading Firms Race To Grab Bond Market Turf. Bloomberg, May 6 , 2024. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-06/jane-street-and-citadel-securities-race-to-grab-bond-market-turf?srnd=homepage-americas&sref=UEnV8aI6


  • Hedge Funds Are ‘Dead As A Doornail,’ Says Chairman Of Ultra-Rich Investors’ Club Tiger 21. CNBC, April 30, 2024. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/hedge-funds-are-dead-as-a-doornail-for-the-ultra-rich-says-tiger-21.html


  • Quant Momentum Trade Is Hot Again In Crypto. Bloomberg, April 3, 2024. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-03/quant-momentum-trade-is-hot-again-in-crypto-amid-sharp-reversal?srnd=markets-vp&sref=UEnV8aI6


  • For Data-Guzzling AI Companies, The Internet Is Too Small. The Wall Street Journal, April 1, 2024. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-training-data-synthetic-openai-anthropic-9230f8d8?mod=tech_lead_pos4


  • A Leading ‘Quant’ Investor On Value Investing, Private Credit, And Market Risks. Barron's, March 28, 2024. https://www.barrons.com/articles/quant-investor-value-investing-private-credit-market-risks-4e0bcdd5


  • ‘It’s Just A Fantasy’: Citadel CEO Ken Griffin Says AI Will Not Replace Human Fund Managers. MarketWatch, March 13, 2024. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-just-a-fantasy-citadel-ceo-ken-griffin-says-ai-will-not-replace-human-fund-managers-b7c2df3b


  • Quant Models Went Haywire As Chinese Stocks Crashed And Rallied. Bloomberg, February 22, 2024. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-22/quant-models-went-haywire-as-chinese-stocks-crashed-and-rallied?srnd=premium&sref=UEnV8aI6


  • Hedge Funds Open Door To AI Despite Banks Rolling Back. Financial News, February 1, 2024. https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/hedge-funds-ai-tool-chatgpt-bing-allow-staff-20240201


  • Blackstone Is Building A $25 Billion Empire Of Power-Hungry Data Centers. Bloomberg, January 28, 2024. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-29/blackstone-is-building-a-25-billion-ai-data-center-empire?sref=UEnV8aI6


  • How The Best Hedge Funds Are Smoking The Competition. Barron's, January 23, 2024. https://www.barrons.com/articles/multistrategy-hedge-funds-podshops-annual-returns-634dd7a4?mod=past_editions


  • Some Hedge Funds, Like Ken Griffin’s Citadel, Did Fine In 2023. Others Lagged Behind. Barron's, January 9, 2024. https://www.barrons.com/articles/hedge-funds-citadel-performance-57d99495?mod=hp_LATEST


  • Wall Street Quants Join Chatbot Boom As AI Gold Rush Intensifies. Bloomberg, December 6, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-06/wall-street-quants-join-chatbot-boom-as-ai-gold-rush-intensifies?srnd=technology-vp&sref=UEnV8aI6


  • Citadel Picks Less Than 0.3% Of Applicants For Sydney Internship, Bloomberg, November 30, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-01/citadel-picks-less-than-0-3-of-applicants-for-sydney-internship?srnd=technology-vp&sref=UEnV8aI6


  • Citadel And Its Peers Are Piling Into The Same Trades. Regulators Are Taking Notice. Bloomberg, November 30, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-30/ken-griffin-s-citadel-hedge-fund-rivals-draw-scrutiny-over-crowding-leverage?srnd=premium&sref=UEnV8aI6


  • Schonfeld Cuts 15% Of Staff After Exiting Millennium Talks, Bloomberg, November 16, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-16/schonfeld-cuts-15-of-staff-after-bolting-from-millennium-talks?sref=UEnV8aI6


  • Quants With $23 Trillion See AI Takeover Even As They Hold Back. Bloomberg, October 30, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-30/quants-with-23-trillion-see-ai-takeover-even-as-they-hold-back?srnd=technology-vp&sref=UEnV8aI6


  • Big Tech Has a Water Problem. AI Is Making It Worse, Report Says. Barron's, October 30, 2023. https://www.barrons.com/articles/tech-ai-stocks-water-esg-microsoft-meta-alphabet-42a2b191?refsec=technology&mod=topics_technology


  • Can AI Replace Your Financial Adviser? Not Yet. But Wait. Bloomberg, October 29, 2023. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-financial-advisers-chatgpt-7f0cac60


  • Money Managers With $100 Trillion Confront End Of The Bull Market. Bloomberg, October 22, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-10-22/active-vs-passive-investing-money-managers-confront-end-of-bull-market?sref=UEnV8aI6


  • AI Isn’t So Smart. Its Stock Picks Lag Behind The Market, Barron's, October 18, 2023. https://www.barrons.com/articles/ai-powered-etfs-dont-beat-the-broader-market-febd38fb


  • We Are All Quants. The New Era Of Systematic Investing. Advisor Perspectives, October 17, 2023. https://www.advisorperspectives.com/commentaries/2023/10/17/quants-new-era-systematic-investing


  • Is There A Ceiling For Gains In Machine-Learned Arbitrage? Chicago Booth Review, October 9, 2023. https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/is-there-ceiling-gains-machine-learned-arbitrage


  • MiB: Jon McAuliffe, the Voleon Group, Barry Ritholtz, September 9, 2023. https://ritholtz.com/2023/09/mib-jon-mcauliffe/


  • Tiger Cubs’ Wrong-Way Bets Cut Flow Of Fresh Cash To A Trickle. Bloomberg, August 30, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-30/tiger-cubs-wrong-way-bets-cut-flow-of-fresh-cash-to-a-trickle?srnd=premium&sref=UEnV8aI6


  • ‘Only So Much Alpha In The World’: Hedge Funds Face A Reckoning, Financial Review, August 29, 2023. https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/only-so-much-alpha-in-the-world-hedge-funds-face-a-reckoning-20230828-p5dzwv


  • Citadel Vets 69,000 Intern Applicants To Find Next Math Geniuses. Bloomberg, August 28, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-28/how-much-can-hedge-fund-interns-earn-citadel-pays-19-000-a-month?srnd=premium&sref=UEnV8aI6


  • Can AI Replace Your Fund Manager? In Time, Yes. Barron's, August 23, 2023. https://www.barrons.com/articles/ai-etf-managers-mutual-funds-investing-4ec7c8cd?mod=hp_LEADSUPP_1


  • Citadel in Fresh Dispute With Balyasny Over Hedge Fund Talent. Bloomberg, August 18, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-18/citadel-in-fresh-dispute-with-balyasny-over-hedge-fund-talent?srnd=premium&sref=UEnV8aI6


  • Your Financial Advisor Will Soon Use AI On Your Portfolio. Barron's, August 12, 2023. https://www.barrons.com/articles/financial-advisor-ai-portfolio-2315ac1e?mod=hp_RETIREMENT


  • How Hedge Fund Managers Are Using ChatGPT. Bloomberg, July 31, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-31/hedge-fund-survey-reveals-how-money-managers-use-chatgpt?srnd=markets-vp&sref=UEnV8aI6


  • Quant Funds Move Into Unfettered Pink Sheet Stock Trading. Financial Times, July 14, 2023. https://www.ft.com/content/8e137704-dc72-4b16-b225-b5f78b03df9b


  • A Quant Firm Gets A Performance Boost From AI- At Least in Tests. Institutional Investor, July 3, 2023. https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2bvm7hl4djwhdoon8kp34/portfolio/a-quant-firm-gets-a-performance-boost-from-ai-at-least-in-tests


  • Active Managers Are Proving Their Worth as Index Funds Lag Behind. Barron's, June 28, 2023. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/27/seth-klarman-says-regular-investors-make-this-mistake-that-ruins-their-returns.html


  • Seth Klarman Says Regular Investors Make This Mistake That Ruins Their Returns. CNBC, June 27, 2023. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/27/seth-klarman-says-regular-investors-make-this-mistake-that-ruins-their-returns.html


  • Goldman Sachs Fund Replaces Outside Managers With Internal Quants. Bloomberg, June 21, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-21/goldman-liquid-alternative-fund-shifts-to-internal-quant-group?sref=UEnV8aI6


  • Quant Funds That Spread Bets Are Having a Moment in China. Bloomberg, June 19, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-19/hedge-funds-that-spread-quant-bets-are-having-a-moment-in-china?sref=UEnV8aI6


  • This AI-Powered Stock Portfolio Beat the S&P 500 and Left Market Pros in the Dust. MarketWatch, June 14, 2023. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-ai-powered-stock-portfolio-beat-the-s-p-500-and-left-market-pros-in-the-dust-f01dce4b?mod=home-page


  • Citadel’s Ken Griffin Says the A.I. Community is Making a Mistake by Creating so Much Hype. CNBC, June 7, 2023. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/07/citadels-ken-griffin-says-the-ai-community-is-making-a-mistake-by-creating-so-much-hype.html


  • Why Are Markets So Calm? It’s Revenge of the Quant Funds. The Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2023. https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-are-markets-so-calm-its-revenge-of-the-quant-funds-26a93425


  • A Once-Reliable Trade Is Becoming So Popular It May Be Falling Apart. Bloomberg, May 26, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-26/top-hedge-fund-trade-exploiting-dumb-index-funds-crushed-by-crowding?sref=UEnV8aI6


  • Wall Street Built a $370 Billion Business Cloning Quant Trades. Bloomberg, May 19, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-19/wall-street-built-a-370-billion-business-cloning-quant-trades?sref=UEnV8aI6


  • The 5 Stocks That Rule This Market—and Make Investors Nervous. Barron's, May 19, 2023. https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-5-stocks-that-rule-this-marketand-make-investors-nervous-be0668da


  • How Quant Investing is Helping Investors Beat the Market. Forbes INDIA, May 17, 2023. https://www.forbesindia.com/article/take-one-big-story-of-the-day/how-quant-investing-is-helping-investors-beat-the-market/84979/1


  • How Moneyball Investing Ran Into a Data Squeeze Play. Bloomberg, March 30, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-31/moneyball-investing-ran-into-a-quant-and-data-squeeze-play?sref=UEnV8aI6


  • Quants Erase Some of Their 2022 Gains. The Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2023.  https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-news-today-03-17-2023/card/quants-erase-some-of-their-2022-gains-B2NDjGDYqDWVrpxzGg0L


  • Lessons from Finance’s Experience with Artificial Intelligence.  The Economist, March 9, 2023.  https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/03/09/lessons-from-finances-experience-with-artificial-intelligence


  • How Citadel Harnessed the Weather to Claim Hedge Fund Crown. Financial Times, March 5, 2023. https://www.ft.com/content/d92e7f30-b4da-48b2-8fff-fd59fda751e1


  • Quant Funds Shed Billions as Wall Street’s Hottest Trends Falter. Bloomberg, February 7, 2023. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-07/quant-funds-shed-billions-as-wall-street-s-hottest-trends-falter?sref=UEnV8aI6


  • In Times of Crisis, Quant Analyst Recommends Quant.  Financial Times, January 26, 2023. https://www.ft.com/content/1f4515b0-5465-4766-acc5-a13026c5f3eb


  • Asset Managers Can No Longer Ignore Machine Learning.  Institutional Investor, January 23, 2023. https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b8x4gd4sw5063k/Asset-Managers-Can-No-Longer-Ignore-Machine-Learning


  • Return of the Quant. Financial Times, December 21, 2022. https://www.ft.com/content/747911fc-1d60-423f-a685-725c36d0e774


  • Morgan Stanley Strategists Expect Quants to Keep Winning in 2023. Bloomberg,  December 19, 2022.  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-19/morgan-stanley-expects-quantitative-analysis-strategy-to-keep-winning-in-2023?sref=UEnV8aI6


  • Quant Hedge Funds Are Back. Here’s Why. Institutional Investor, December 16, 2022. https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b213r743bnlkns/quant-hedge-funds-are-back-heres-why  


  • Toss of a Coin that Made a One-Time Game Developer Top of the Quants. Financial Times, December 15, 2022.  https://www.ft.com/content/3f4bbd29-5adb-4a51-913b-f90fc5081905


  • Quants Are Headed for Best Year in Decades as Fed Stokes Volatility. The Wall Street Journal, December 14, 2022.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/quants-are-headed-for-best-year-in-decades-as-fed-stokes-volatility-11670995957


  • The Fall of Big Tech Is Boosting Stock Quants on Wall Street. Bloomberg, November 5, 2022.  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-05/the-fall-of-big-tech-is-boosting-stock-quants-on-wall-street?sref=UEnV8aI6


  • Quant Hedge Funds Increasingly Popular With Investors. Hedgeweek, May 5, 2022.  https://www.hedgeweek.com/2022/05/05/314332/quant-hedge-funds-increasingly-popular-investors


  • Statistical Arbitrage: Definition, How It Works, and Example. Investopedia, April 30, 2021.  https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/statisticalarbitrage.asp


  • Was Warren Buffett Right About Quant Hedge Funds? Forbes, January 12, 2021.  https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobwolinsky/2021/01/12/was-warren-buffett-right-about-quant-hedge-funds/?sh=63c7e8154ee6


  • Quant Funds Revealed: Careers, Salaries & Recruiting. Mergers And Inquisitions, November 11, 2020.  https://www.wsj.com/graphics/journey-inside-a-real-life-trading-algorithm/


  • How A Trading Algorithm Actually Works. The Wall Street Journal, May 21, 2017.  https://www.wsj.com/graphics/journey-inside-a-real-life-trading-algorithm/


  • The Quants Run Wall Street Now. The Wall Street Journal, May 21, 2017.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-quants-run-wall-street-now-1495389108


  • Statistical Arbitrage And The Big Retail ETF Confusion. Financial Times, July 30, 2009.  https://www.ft.com/content/408d337a-4c07-3361-b91e-df097ae35e34

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