Quant Finance's Grand Plan for a Better Future

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It is possible for quant funds to have bugs. It's not like a mutant from all the problems of software and bugs. The fact of running so much concentration in our portfolio, even if we're not back to neutral, we're still not immune. If another COVID-19 would happen, that's actually a really tough time with many quant funds.

Richard Craib is the Founder & CEO of Numerai, a new kind of hedge fund where data scientists around the world collaborate to predict equity returns using artificial intelligence. Richard joins the show to discuss Numerai’s origins, how it embraces the spirit of open source, why it has its own cryptocurrency and MUCH more! Important Links:

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The genesis of Numerai
How and why Numerai gives away its dataset
Getting users to put skin in the game
How Numerai scores users; becoming comfortable with the process
Size limits & leverage
Reactions to Numerai
Numerai’s cryptocurrency
How Numerai differs from Quantopian
Data, optimization & LLMs
“Monopolize intelligence, monopolize data, monopolize money, and decentralize the monopoly”
What could go wrong?
Numerai’s relationship with its data scientists
Could Numerai’s model work in any other industries?
What could go wrong?
“Life is long”
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