When #Hedgefunds Ate Their Own
If you have bought into our arguments that the capacity of alpha is finite and that the leading managers of automated trading methods can achieve "winner-take-all" performance characteristics in the sources of alpha that they target, then it stands to reason that the causes for where assets are concentrating and which funds are closing are related. Without even looking at track records, these two facts lead to the conclusion that systematic strategies are more consistent than, and therefore, [...]
#Hedgefunds: Is the Capacity of Alpha Unlimited?
Like the financial markets equivalent of "dude", or "bro" or the many satisfying derivations of "F**K," the term "alpha" seems to pepper our market discourse in a way that has few peers. Rightly or wrongly, there isn't an investment or trading context into which it is not shoehorned. We hear it everywhere, at all times, and in numerous forms: Achieving alpha... Delivering alpha... Portable alpha... (A strategy that had its heyday around 2006 and has recently tried to [...]
Alphacution Podcast Series Ep4 – Technology for Financial Services: Hyped vs. Overhyped
Many thanks to Clare Rhodes, Managing Director, Articulate Communications for hosting this podcast series. Here is a link to Episode 4 of the series - Technology for Financial Services: Hyped vs. Overhyped (September 19, 2018) where the podcast series was originally published.
α < ∞ ?
Like the financial markets equivalent of "dude", or "bro" or the many satisfying derivations of "F**K," the term "alpha" seems to pepper our market discourse in a way that has few peers. Rightly or wrongly, there isn't an investment or trading context into which it is not shoehorned. We hear it everywhere, at all times, and in numerous forms: Achieving alpha... Delivering alpha... Portable alpha... (A strategy that had its heyday around 2006 and has recently tried to [...]
Alphacution Podcast Series Ep3 – Capital Markets’ Digital Transformation
Many thanks to Clare Rhodes, Managing Director, Articulate Communications for hosting this podcast series. Here is a link to Episode 3 of the series - Capital Markets' Digital Transformation (September 7, 2018) where the podcast series was originally published.
Those Fees Are No Laughing Matter!
Image Credit: Arpad Busson and actress Uma Thurman attend the premiere of Zulu during the 66th Cannes International Film Festival - Hubert Boesl/DPA/Alamy He pressed "record" on the cassette machine, leaned back and took a long, deep drag from a cigarette. "Let's begin," he said with a heavy accent. In a risky break from protocol, and much to the frustration of my partner - Quantlab co-founder and chief scientist, Ed Bosarge - I asked if I could bum [...]
#Algorithm: Benchmarking the Cost of Post-Trade Processing
Patterns... Preferably, persistent and predictable patterns... It could be said that history is influenced by a series of pattern discoveries whereby new patterns are discovered with new tools, new technologies or new methodologies. Discovery always starts with variance of perspective, like a new pair of eyes. And, that kind of trick never gets old - even during an era of hyper-intensive innovation. So, with that bit of philosophy as our backdrop, we arrive at today's lesson: Alphacution discovered [...]
Alphacution Podcast Series Ep2 – Technology Strategy, Business Performance in the Digital Era
Many thanks to Clare Rhodes, Managing Director, Articulate Communications for hosting this podcast series. Here is a link to Episode 2 of the series - Technology Strategy and Business Performance in the Digital Era (August 22, 2018) where the podcast series was originally published.
Thomas Murray Covers Alphacution: Measuring the FinTech Payback
Originally published on the Thomas Murray website on August 20, 2018 Conversation with Paul Rowady, Director of Research, Alphacution Research Conservatory What is Alphacution? Alphacution is the first digitally-oriented research and strategic advisory platform focused on developing a centralized "market intelligence asset" by modeling, measuring, and benchmarking technology spending patterns, and the operational impacts of those investment decisions. The Alphacution platform is specifically designed to deliver an empirical and quantitatively-backed perspective on the effect of financial services industry [...]
Quant Invasion Continues As Data Infrastructure Overtakes Eyeballs
Clues... At it's core, this is much of what we are ever doing as a research and advisory operation: Looking for clues. Ideally, we are looking for the kinds of clues that recur as patterns. And then, tell the stories from those clues and patterns. (Better yet, if we can devise a mechanism to systematically discover more clues and more patterns with regularity, then we will have developed something quite valuable. But, I digress...) So, it was with [...]
