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Re:Hedge-fund managers that do the most research will post t... by dsacco on Thursday March 22, 2018 @11:10AM (#16649284)
Most "black box" quantitative hedge funds still use massive amounts of public data, even public data that might appear somewhat obvious. They absolutely develop new insights from that data.
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Re:Hedge-fund managers that do the most research will post t... by scarletham on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:58PM (#16650441)
Yeah, to clarify I was agreeing that those firms certainly pull and use that data, but not necessarily in the same traditional fashion that paper seems to imply.
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