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January 2026 was a good reminder of a core truth in systematic investing: headline market strength does not guarantee broad-based performance. Risk assets advanced and sentiment remained constructive, but under the surface the market was ...

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 ...

Systematic investing is in oversupply. Equity statistical arbitrage managers can run thousands of signals across hundreds of stocks. Macro quant teams can test dozens of model variants across rates, FX, commodities, and futures curves. The ...

We’ve looked at the AI boom from a few angles already — from how hedge funds are actually using GenAI (and what that means for manager selection), to how crowding in the “Magnificent Seven” became its own risk factor. This piece tackles ...

When people say “private wealth is the next allocator,” it can sound like marketing shorthand. But there’s a concrete reason the phrase keeps coming back: the wealth channel is not just getting bigger — it’s getting more institutional. ...

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, ...

Prediction markets are no longer a niche pastime. They are becoming a scalable market structure for pricing discrete outcomes—elections, policy decisions, macro prints, and corporate events—using exchange-style contracts. Two forces make ...

Strategic Asset Allocation has been a running theme in our research this year. In “Strategic Asset Allocation: 6 Practical Frameworks for Better Decisions”, we laid out the core playbook: different ways investment committees can design ...

December felt like the kind of month that often gets overlooked: low volumes, little drama, and a market that largely chose to end the year without forcing a fight. But for systematic strategies, these “quiet” months can be deceptively ...