{"id":66310,"date":"2018-10-22T00:53:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T04:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=66310"},"modified":"2018-10-23T23:39:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T03:39:52","slug":"quants-now-trade-exotic-stuff-but-can-they-handle-illiquidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2018\/quants-now-trade-exotic-stuff-but-can-they-handle-illiquidity.html","title":{"rendered":"Quants Now Trade Exotic Stuff. But Can They Handle Illiquidity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) The search for elusive alpha is sending a handful of computer-driven hedge funds trawling the remotest corners of financial markets. They\u2019re a subset of the trend-following strategies known as commodity trading advisers, or CTAs, that were popular when central banks pushed up stocks and bonds over the past decade. Now a few of them are seeking uncorrelated returns and a little extra alpha in anything from cheese and Turkish scrap steel to obscure chemicals or eggs in China.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-10-22\/quants-now-trade-exotic-stuff-but-can-they-handle-illiquidity\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The search for elusive alpha is sending a handful of computer-driven hedge funds trawling the remotest corners of financial markets. They\u2019re a subset of the trend-following strategies known as commodity trading advisers, or CTAs, that were popular when central [&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-66310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66310","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=66310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66311,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66310\/revisions\/66311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}