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Quant equity market-neutral is the strategy everyone is adding to right now. Before you size up, there is one trade-off the track record won't show you. Market-neutral is not a binary property. It is a direction of travel — and one that ...

Under what conditions can human beings reason together toward better decisions? It is a difficult question — and, for anyone who has sat in an investment committee, a familiar one. Jürgen Habermas spent seven decades asking it. He died on ...

The Iran conflict is a macro stress test, not just an energy headline. Brent trading back above $100. Hormuz disruption impeding a critical corridor for global crude. Rate-cut expectations scaled back. The IMF flagging that stocks and ...

Most allocators start with what to own. The harder question comes later: how much to give each sleeve, when to reduce it, and when to add? That is sleeve management. A multi-manager pod shop solves the same problem inside a hedge fund. ...

Markets change. Narratives rotate. Yet certain sentences never die. They show up in bull markets, bear markets, and the weird in-between markets where everyone says "it's a stock picker's market" while buying the same seven mega-caps. To ...

Markets don’t move because “the market thinks.” They move because someone, somewhere has to trade—to rebalance, hedge, meet a mandate, manage risk, or implement a flow. If you’re an allocator, CIO, or PM, that’s not just a neat line. It’s ...

In multi-manager hedge funds, talent is not culture, it is capacity. Pods are production units, and hiring is capital allocation by another name. People moves will not predict returns, but they do show how platforms chose to spend money, ...

I’ll admit it: for a long time, I thought hedging was a solved problem. In my head, it was a neat, mostly technical exercise. You identify the portfolio’s unwanted sensitivities—its delta, its skew, its tail risk—then you go to the market ...

The most consequential shift in quantitative finance isn't happening in a conference room or research lab — it's occurring in the strategic repositioning of capital itself. High-frequency proprietary trading firms and large quantitative ...