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If you aren’t being recruited because you didn’t work at Bridgewater, maybe it is time to create your own hedge fund operation by creating an algo on CloudQuant.
EFinancialCareers is reporting that hedge funds and VCs are throwing money at ex-Bridgewater data scientists’ startup.
“Banks and hedge funds used to want to hire quantitative analysts, frequently PhDs in engineering, math, statistics or a hard science such as physics or chemistry. But the main problem financial services firms are facing right now is the data itself. It’s messy, unstructured and still difficult to use for alpha opportunities.”
Read the full article on EFinancialCareers.com