{"id":54142,"date":"2016-08-31T08:32:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=54142"},"modified":"2016-08-31T08:32:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:32:57","slug":"quant-fund-gives-robots-364-days-off-to-best-currency-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2016\/quant-fund-gives-robots-364-days-off-to-best-currency-rivals.html","title":{"rendered":"Quant Fund Gives Robots 364 Days Off to Best Currency Rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Like a lot of hedge funds, Principal Global Investors\u2019 Macro Currency Group uses computer-driven models to devise trading strategies. What sets it apart is that its machines only make calls once a year.<\/p>\n<p>Each January, the computers\u2019 longer-term economic projections establish the firm\u2019s key trading positions for the next 12 months. The bets don\u2019t always seem intuitive at the time. At the start of this year, the models projected the yen would appreciate against Swiss franc, even as forecasters saw the pair little changed in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-08-30\/quant-hedge-fund-gives-robots-364-days-off-to-top-currency-peers\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Like a lot of hedge funds, Principal Global Investors\u2019 Macro Currency Group uses computer-driven models to devise trading strategies. What sets it apart is that its machines only make calls once a year. Each January, the computers\u2019 longer-term economic [&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-54142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54142","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=54142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54143,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54142\/revisions\/54143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}