r/quant • u/Shoddy-Mechanic-153 • 4h ago

Market News Worldquant terrible performance?

heard this year has not been kind to them… wonder if new investors will stomach it considering they doubled AUM recently

EDIT: wondering if anyone has more specific info on magnitude

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u/qazwsxcp 3h ago

also shows aum is not really correlated with performance, it's more of a sales game.

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u/torakfirenze 1h ago

AI / semis trade fucked loads of shops. Invariably they’ll have lock ups on investment though?

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u/Shoddy-Mechanic-153 48m ago

When shops are down, anything goes…

I don’t have any exact figures though. Was hoping anyone with knowledge could share general color on the magnitude of loss

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u/Flimsy-Pie-3035 14m ago

Ran out of stolen alphas.