10 Biggest Quant Funds in The World, 10 Stock Picks
Quant hedge funds saw massive losses in 2020 as machine powered strategies failed to accurately predict the unprecedented market trends. Quant equity hedge funds mainly struggled due to the introduction of new market trends in the pandemic year, which have no previous precedent. This is contrary to quantitative trading strategies that study a large amount of historic data to predict future trends. Quant hedge funds are blaming increased volatility for hefty losses.
Volume, price, and historical data are among the big factors when it comes to quantitative analysis.
“If nothing else, it’s clear that 2020 represents an Achilles’ heel in the hedge fund machines, namely a real failure to grapple with unique new drivers of stock returns that don’t fit the academic models. Even the newer ‘machine learning’ approaches felt somewhat impotent since you need to learn from something, and probably rack up losses while you’re learning,” Keith Haydon, CIO of Man Solutions said.