{"id":67710,"date":"2019-01-27T01:16:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T06:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=67710"},"modified":"2019-01-29T01:50:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T06:50:35","slug":"hardings-quant-hedge-fund-sees-assets-plummet-by-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2019\/hardings-quant-hedge-fund-sees-assets-plummet-by-5-billion.html","title":{"rendered":"Harding\u2019s Quant Hedge Fund Sees Assets Plummet by $5 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg)Assets at David Harding\u2019s quantitative investment firm plunged by about $5 billion last year as it shifted strategy and investors lost patience with computer-driven hedge funds. The money managed by Winton Group slumped to $23.6 billion at the end of 2018, with its flagship fund losing 0.6 percent, according to investor letters seen by Bloomberg. A spokesman for the London-based firm declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>The quant powerhouse, previously known for betting on market trends, has been transforming itself into a firm that combines various investment strategies to deliver on a promise of consistent returns. While that helped it outperform rivals and lose less than equity markets last year, some investors headed for the exit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-01-23\/harding-s-quant-hedge-fund-sees-assets-plummet-by-5-billion\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg)Assets at David Harding\u2019s quantitative investment firm plunged by about $5 billion last year as it shifted strategy and investors lost patience with computer-driven hedge funds. The money managed by Winton Group slumped to $23.6 billion at the end of [&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-67710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67710","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=67710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67711,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67710\/revisions\/67711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}