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...Perhaps the hyperloop deserves to join flying cars and teleportation devices on the trash heap of mobility technologies that never got moving....
...Bnk To The Future and SALT have operated advanced securities and lending technology for over a decade combined and have extensive experience in their respective fields....
...They represent about a seventh of group operating profit, using Visible Alpha data. But with sales now closely tied to the global smartphone market, business has cooled....
...“The investments we are making in technology are centred on two major goals: generating alpha and scale and efficiency,” Mr Neff said in a recent interview with the Financial Times....
...Healthtech companies have flourished in China in the past few years, raising the bulk of the $5.6bn poured into the sector in Asia-Pacific last year, according to HealthTech Alpha, an analytics group....
...If she thought being a woman in banking was tough, the cliquey alpha male worlds of both fintech and fundraising nearly cook Starling’s goose....
...The investment actually came from Alpha Yoda Limited, another Hong Kong company that Mr Wu is a director of....
...Elsewhere, it is worth noting the substantive excess liquidity build, with deposits +6% q/q (implying end-2Q LTD of <67%)....
...“Pension investors perceive it as a device for getting alpha at beta risk and beta charges....
...In detail: Hansa Top five holdings (%) Ocean Wilsons Holdings Limited 24.9 Findlay Park American Fund 6.3 GAM Star Fund PLC — technology 4.7 Vulcan Value Equity Fund 4.6 Select Equity Offshore, Ltd 4.5...
...In September, private equity firms were holding an industry record $942bn of uninvested money, according to Preqin Ltd....
...This will be the year for active investors and for alpha creation....
...It also decided not to include power developer Guodian, New China Life Insurance and China General Technology Group, a sprawling state-owned engineering and infrastructure conglomerate....
...Bonga is the first product of Safaricom’s Alpha innovation incubator that was created last year. It is part of the company’s strategy to move towards becoming a more platform-based business....
...“Masa has brought out the Alpha male in everyone,” says one venture capital investor with offices on both sides of the Pacific....
...“It mirrors the rising acceptance of technology in our lives, so having technology as part of your investment process feels natural now.”...
...DeepMind is now examining real-life problems that can be structured in a similar way, to apply the technology....
...Ron Hoffman, chief executive of Playtech’s financials arm, said the changes marked “a significant step in the evolution of TradeTech”, adding: The acquisition of Alpha’s high-quality technology and teams...
...The fund follows an alternative risk premia strategy that looks to replicate hedge fund returns that are generated by market movements, known as beta, rather than manager skill, or alpha....
...AlternativeData.org, a data provider on the industry set up by YipIt Data.* “There has definitely been a significant increase from traditional mutual funds in the past year,” says Emmett Kilduff, founder of Eagle Alpha...
...Old Mutual Wealth has suffered from expensive IT problems, cost overruns and delays in relation to a planned technology upgrade....
...So-called alpha — the inimitable talent of skilled human investors — is worth paying for, as is treatment by expert doctors....
...Just as risk management technology for 2007 was not adequate for 2017, and that 2017 technology will be inadequate for 2027, we must constantly challenge ourselves to evaluate every input, every line of...
...Clive Anderson h2glenfern Ltd, London W1, UK...
...LCH estimates that the three newcomers, along with Bridgewater’s Pure Alpha Fund, which also has a systematic element, have made $90bn of gains for investors over the past 10 years....
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