{"id":52574,"date":"2016-05-11T08:50:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T12:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=52574"},"modified":"2016-05-11T08:50:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T12:50:38","slug":"hedge-fund-quants-beat-active-stockpickers-in-pay-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2016\/hedge-fund-quants-beat-active-stockpickers-in-pay-game.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Quants Beat Active Stockpickers in Pay Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Investment Week) Hedge fund quants earned more money in 2015 than some of the biggest active managers on Wall Street, according to the annual ranking by Institutional Investor&#8217;s Alpha magazine. The top 25 best paid hedge fund managers earned a combined total of $12.94bn last year, up over 10% from a reported $11.62bn in 2014, according to the FT.<\/p>\n<p>The annual ranking revealed &#8220;quants&#8221; that use computers to trade financial markets generally sat higher in the list than those who practise active investment based on their own decisions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investmentweek.co.uk\/investment-week\/news\/2457637\/hedge-fund-quants-beat-active-stockpickers-in-pay-game\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Investment Week) Hedge fund quants earned more money in 2015 than some of the biggest active managers on Wall Street, according to the annual ranking by Institutional Investor&#8217;s Alpha magazine. The top 25 best paid hedge fund managers earned a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52575,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52574\/revisions\/52575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}