Hedge fund firm Two Sigma just started selling a risk analysis tool, and it shows how secretive quants are now looking to make money sharing their tech

The $60 billion firm is the latest hedge fund to spin off its expertise into a product or service it can sell.

November 14, 2019   |   View Online »

Hedge fund firm Two Sigma just started selling a risk analysis tool, and it shows how secretive quants are now looking to make money sharing their tech Dan DeFrancesco | The $60 billion firm is the latest hedge fund to spin off its expertise into a product or service it can sell. Read More »

Hedge funds are losing to private equity in a tug-of-war over investors' portfolios, and experts say it's only going to get worse Bradley Saacks | Hedge funds dropped to 33% of investors' alternatives portfolio this year, down from 40% last year, while private equity grew its slice of the pie. Read More »

Wells Fargo's head of cards and retail services has taken a job at Equifax. The bank told us who's filling in, but said it hasn't named a permanent replacement yet. Shannen Balogh | Wells Fargo's head of cards and retail has is taking a job at Equifax. She had reported to Wells veteran Avid Modjtabai, head of payments and part of the bank's operating committee. Read More »

Bank of America's mortgage tech bets have helped save billions and spark a boom in home lending. Here's how it's outpacing JPMorgan and Wells Fargo. Alex Morrell | Bank of America's share of mortgage volumes declined for four straight years. Bets on technology and personnel have changed its fortunes. Read More »

SoftBank-backed insurance startup Lemonade has postponed IPO plans after plotting an offering for this year. It shows how the pipeline for high-growth tech is getting clogged after WeWork. Dakin Campbell | Lemonade is another fast-growing, money-losing tech company that has had to put plans on pause because of a chilly public market. Read More »

4 investors explain how to get started in angel investing — and how to succeed once you're in it Allison Duncan | First Round's Phin Barnes and bestselling author and investor Kim Perell, among others, say to take these steps to launch a career in angel investing. Read More »

The winners of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics are taking on the world's biggest problems. We talked to them about the wealth tax, 'Medicare for All,' and some huge misunderstandings about immigration. Richard Feloni | The MIT economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo spoke with Business Insider about inequality, capitalism, and making decisions based on data. Read More »

IBM and Oracle are so far behind in the cloud, they might stop trying to compete with Amazon altogether and go a different route, analyst says Rosalie Chan | A Forrester report says that since Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Alibaba dominate the cloud market, IBM and Oracle will shift their focus. Read More »

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Internet-of-things startup Particle went from a failed Kickstarter to powering smart air conditioners and Jacuzzis. Here's the pitch deck it used to raise $40 million. Alex Nicoll | To most observers, the internet of things (IoT) is a story of smarter things. Particle focuses on the connective tissue. Read More »

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