The Strategy Behind Asia’s $6 Billion Quant Fund: Quantedge
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Suhaimi Zainul-Abidi discusses the strategy and success of Quantedge, a systematic hedge fund in Singapore, focusing on risk management and the role of generative AI in portfolio management.
Checkout Flux 4.0 here: https://www.flux.live/Suhaimi Zainul-Abidi is the CEO of Quantedge, the Singapore-based systematic hedge fund that has compounded at roughly 20% net annualized returns for 20 years — growing from $3 million raised from friends and family to over $6 billion in AUM, with close to $5 billion of that from investment gains rather than fundraising. In this episode of Odds on Open, Suhaimi breaks down Quantedge's founding thesis and why the firm's real edge isn't informational: with close to 300 distinct markets traded across equities, commodities, rates and FX, breadth and independent bets let them target ~25% annualized volatility without risk of ruin. We go deep on risk premia and factor-based market-neutral strategies, why economic rationale must come before empirical evidence in the research pipeline, why they refuse to run a black box they can't explain, and how they think about signal versus noise in alternative data, narratives and news flow. Suhaimi also gives a clear-eyed view on generative AI in portfolio management — transformational for research productivity, data cleaning and execution, but deliberately kept out of the production models.The second…
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