Forbes – When Bartt Kellermann first launched a hedge fund consulting business in New York in 2002, China was barely a blip on the global investment map. A decade of growth has propelled its economy into the ranks of the world’s most influential, to the extent that U.S. financial news show figures banter over small changes in its economic data. China’s capital markets, correspondently, are also now among the world’s largest, and competition among fund managers to attract its institutional investors and well-heeled individuals is fierce.
Against that background, a Kellermann-organized conference of fund managers that has enjoyed a nearly decade-long run in the U.S. – “Battle of the Quants” – is gaining traction in China, too. The “Battle of the Quants” to be held on June 26-27 in Shanghai will attract as many as 700 people, up from 500 in 2013, the first year it was held in China.
