System addicts: a look at systematic trading

There has been a quiet revolution going on in the systematic managed futures business in recent years. The biggest players have gone beyond trend-following and embraced a multitude of different strategies and trading styles. Hedge Funds Review reports on the diversified approach to systematic trading.

Over the past decade hedge funds have come to embody the pursuit of ideas and innovation in the investment sector. Hedge fund managers found ways to free themselves from the historical constraints that tied investment returns to market performance.

The concept of absolute returns has changed the rules of the investment business and made hedge funds an important component of almost every sophisticated investment portfolio.

But, until recently, the advances in one corner of the hedge fund world have