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The fund lost US$2 billion in investments in Russia during the 1998 Russian financial crisis. [ 4 ] In July 2011, to avoid having to register with the SEC [ 5 ] and comply with reporting requirements under the Dodd-Frank reform act , the Quantum Fund announced they would be turning the fund into a family investment group and returning all ...
GSA Capital (GSA) is a British quantitative finance investment firm. It focuses on systematic trading across equity, futures, and foreign exchange markets globally. It was previously a hedge fund before transitioning to become a private trading firm in 2021 to focus on better performing strategies.
Ningbo High-Flyer Quantitative Investment Management Partnership (Limited Partnership), commonly referred to as High-Flyer, (Chinese: 幻方; pinyin: Huàn Fāng) is a Chinese hedge fund company incorporated in February 2016. [2] Its legal registration address is in Ningbo, Zhejiang, and its main office location is in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
Quantitative strategies are offered in different type of fund structures: Hedge fund. The first quantitative funds were offered as hedge funds and not available to a broad public. The goal of those funds is to earn an absolute return with little constraints and freedom to apply leverage, shorting and derivatives. Mutual fund. With the ...
Quantedge targets a high level of total risk for its portfolio relative to other hedge funds. As a result, the fund expects to experience a 10% to over 40% loss periodically as part of its strategy. [5] [19] During the 2008 financial crisis, Quantedge experienced a 45% drawdown before ending the year with a narrower 23% loss. [20]
QRT 's two largest funds posted returns over 20% for the year 2022. In 2023, its largest fund also had a return over 20%. [10] In January 2024, QRT disclosed it had taken a short position of more than $1 billion against German companies. Its largest short positions were on Volkswagen, Rheinmetall, Siemens Energy and Deutsche Bank. [11]
Princeton Newport Partners (PNP), founded in 1974, was stated by its founder, mathematics professor Edward O. Thorp, to be the world's first market neutral hedge fund. [1] The company was a pioneer in quantitative trading techniques, profiting from mispricings in derivatives , and later statistical arbitrage , which involved trading a large ...
Below are the 20 largest hedge funds in the world ranked by discretionary assets under management (AUM) as of mid-2024. Only assets in private funds following hedge fund strategies are counted. Some of these managers also manage public funds and offer non-hedge fund strategies.