{"id":59416,"date":"2017-08-11T03:03:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T07:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59416"},"modified":"2017-08-11T03:03:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T07:03:31","slug":"the-quant-fund-robot-takeover-has-been-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2017\/the-quant-fund-robot-takeover-has-been-postponed.html","title":{"rendered":"The Quant Fund Robot Takeover Has Been Postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) For computerized strategies that are supposed to be making people obsolete, quants are looking decidedly human in 2017. Program-driven hedge funds are stumbling, a promising startup has closed, and once-reliable styles are showing weakening returns. A handful of investment factors, the wiring of smart-beta funds, have gone dormant. This isn\u2019t just normal volatility confined to a single month&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-08-09\/robot-takeover-postponed-as-quant-funds-flattened-in-equities\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) For computerized strategies that are supposed to be making people obsolete, quants are looking decidedly human in 2017. Program-driven hedge funds are stumbling, a promising startup has closed, and once-reliable styles are showing weakening returns. A handful of investment [&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-59416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59416","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=59416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59417,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59416\/revisions\/59417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}