David Harding Rewrites Winton Hedge Fund Playbook in Search of Returns

  • Quant pioneer says of trend-following: ‘You can do it at home’
  • Winton’s expanded strategy now trades about 7,000 stocks
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David Harding was a hedge fund pioneer whose quantitative models generated double-digit returns for decades. Today, he’s in the unusual position of having to reinvent his business all over again.

The algorithms he built don’t work so well anymore.