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QUANTITATIVE INVESTING (Published Date :3/1/2013)

Category :Global
The trouble with trends is that, like some friends, they just don’t know when to back off. While it often pays to invest into new ideas and growth stories, there comes a point in every trend’s life when its prominence outweighs its usefulness. It’s often the point at which momentum is just getting going.
By Toby Garrod
Category :Global
Among the main guilty parties behind the global financial crisis, the most faceless, and perhaps most easily blamed, were the quantitative analysts. Their programs were pilloried to exemplify the finance industry’s loose relationship with reality, and to demonstrate that its soul was missing in action.