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Discretionary Managers Seek Alpha in Alternative Data

Alternative data providers see huge potential in providing their data to discretionary asset managers who are losing assets to quantitative and systematic funds.

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Morgan Stanley’s 16,000 Human Brokers Get Algorithmic Makeover

Call them cyborgs. Morgan Stanley is about to augment its 16,000 financial advisers with machine-learning algorithms that suggest trades, take over routine tasks and send reminders when your birthday is near.

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Machine learning set to shake up equity hedge funds – Financial Times

… the model of hedge funds charging “2 and 20” — a 2 per cent management fee and 20 per cent performance fee — for investing in large-cap stocks rising and falling “doesn’t work any more” and is ripe for disruption.

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Algo Developers – Entry Level

CloudQuant is THE trading strategy incubator. We’re building a free python data research tool for ordinary people with extraordinary trading ideas. We license and fund the best trading strategies and pay our users a share of the profits. Our group is a FINTECH startup housed under the umbrella of a trading firm with existing infrastructure and financial resources.