Former Sequoia investor Jeff Wang is close to launching one of the biggest hedge funds this year. Wang’s Augnition Global Investors is set to start trading in October with more than $2 billion in assets, two people close to the manager told Business Insider. The launch was the talk of Morgan Stanley’s popular Breakers conference
Last month, the machines won. Quantitative hedge funds had a strong July, highlighted by several big algorithm-driven names that avoided the pain their human-run peers suffered last month. At Renaissance Technologies, its largest external fund — known as Renaissance Institutional Equities — was up 9.2% in July, more than making up for losses over the
In the high-flying world of AI investing, sometimes you get the bull, and sometimes you get the horns. After a long ride on the bull, Gen Z hedge-funder Leopold Aschenbrenner found out last week how quickly things can shift, even for a whiz kid once called the “Nostradamus of AI.” It’s a story that was
IT hedge fund Qube is hiring flesh-and-blood portfolio managers for a new equities unit, according to two people familiar with the company’s plans. The quant giant, which now manages $50 billion across its suite of strategies, is developing a team of portfolio managers who will trade long and short positions across different sectors and report
