| High-conviction long bets outperformed high-conviction shorts during Q1 chaos, says MSCI study High-conviction long-positioned hedge fund portfolios outperformed high-conviction short portfolios during the recent market meltdown, according to new MSCI research exploring how hedge fund managers navigated Q1’s unprecedented volatility surge. | | ADVERTISEMENT | | | | | | | | Barclay CTA Index up again in April | Fri | 15 May 2020, 11:21 | As the economic toll of the novel coronavirus mounted, managed futures posted another positive month in April gaining 0.12 per cen,t according to the Barclay CTA Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. |
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| | | | | | SEI Podcast Series: Technology transformation in investment management firms In a recent white paper entitled Evolution in Asset Management, SEI pointed out that 70 per cent of US fund managers are currently looking to deploy advanced analytics in the front-office. The field of data science and machine learning-based data analysis is helping to transform how fund managers think about data to gain a competitive edge. |
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