{"id":59058,"date":"2017-07-20T08:22:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T12:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59058"},"modified":"2017-07-20T08:22:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T12:22:34","slug":"human-stock-pickers-at-hedge-funds-are-actually-beating-their-computer-competition-so-far-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2017\/human-stock-pickers-at-hedge-funds-are-actually-beating-their-computer-competition-so-far-this-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Human Stock Pickers At Hedge Funds Are Actually Beating Their Computer Competition So Far This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Before computers completely take over the hedge-fund industry, they need to overcome one tiny obstacle: investment returns.   In the first half of the year, computer-generated strategies, or what they call in the business, systematic strategies, returned 3.17 percent, according to data by Preqin. That compares with the more-traditional discretionary strategy, which returned almost double that, with gains of 5.99 percent. Those results are net of fees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/07\/19\/hedge-fund-humans-computers-investment-returns.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Before computers completely take over the hedge-fund industry, they need to overcome one tiny obstacle: investment returns. In the first half of the year, computer-generated strategies, or what they call in the business, systematic strategies, returned 3.17 percent, according [&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-59058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59058","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=59058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59059,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59058\/revisions\/59059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}