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In July 2021, Bill Ackman told investors he would be liquidating and returning capital in his Pershing Square's $4 billion SPAC, the biggest ever SPAC, after failing to find a suitable target company to take public through a merger. ...

In the vast landscape of hedge fund products within the equity long/short arena, investors face a formidable task. The pursuit is to sieve through this diverse array in search of a select few managers who not only survive scrutiny but ...

Mr. Barry Goodman is co-CEO of the Millburn Ridgefield Corporation. We discuss his thoughts on salient characteristics and evolutions within quantitative investment management as well as multi-data machine learning approaches to Chinese ...

Every investor has come across the typical disclaimer: "past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results". While this might be true for a single investment, given the many qualitative and quantitative aspects to consider ...

Resonanz Capital's data scientist, Chang Liu and software engineer Dinko Georgiev share insights on the chatbot they developed for hedge fund investments. How would you explain a chatbot to an intelligent 8 year old child? The chatbot we ...

Merger Arbitrage has had multiple challenges during the first half of the year, leading to disappointing performance from many hedge funds in this space, but we now believe that spread widening has priced in much of the risk, and therefore ...

Dr. Philip Seager is the Head of Portfolio Management for Capital Fund Management (CFM). We discuss his thoughts on salient characteristics of quantitative strategies Is Alternative Data the new trend after Big Data? What is Alternative ...

What is the optimal market exposure for a portfolio of hedge funds? The answer to this question directly depends on an investor’s risk appetite and the role the hedge fund portfolio should play within their broader allocation. Yet, it is ...

The Historic Context The U.S. Treasury yield curve hit its deepest inversion in July since Fed Chairman Paul Volcker's high inflation era. The inversion illustrates financial market fears that a continued Fed hiking cycle sends the United ...