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If you allocate to liquid alternatives, you already know the awkward truth: the label sells the strategy. Now the label has to pass a math test. The SEC’s amended Names Rule (Rule 35d-1) is forcing funds to line up what’s in the name with ...

“Quant” is not a strategy. It’s a production method. That distinction matters because allocator outcomes diverge based on what kind of quant you own. A trend fund can be operationally simple and still blow up from leverage and execution. A ...

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 ...

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, ...