Saturday, October 3, 2015

Pioneer Quantitative Fund Managers


  1. Renaissance Technologies
    • James Simons, MIT-educated mathematician and Pentagon codebreaker
  2. AHL
    • flagship arm of Man Group
    • AUM $12bn
  3. Winton Capital
    • David Harding, Cambridge-educated physicist
    • helped set up AHL before selling it to Man Group
    • one of the founding fathers of the CTA (commodity trading adviser)  strategy, a trend-following strategy employed across a variety of markets
  4. Systematica Investments
    • Leda Braga, engineering PhD
    • spin-off of BlueCrest
    • AUM $9bn
  5. DE Shaw
    • David Shaw, Stanford computer scientist
    • AUM $37bn
    • Fortune magazine calls him the "king quant"
  6. AQR
    • Clifford Asness
    • AUM $130bn with $30bn in risk parity funds
    • also manages CTA funds
  7. Bridgewater
    • Ray Dalio
    • AUM $70bn in All Weather risk parity fund
    • also has a classic macro fund named Pure Alpha
  8. Two Sigma
    • DE Shaw alumni David Siegel and John Overdeck
    • AUM $25bn
AUM = assets under management

Excerpted from Financial Times, US print edition, Oct. 1, 2015, p. 9.




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