Articles by Rob Mannix
The MIT professor giving LLMs a ‘brain scan’
Hui Chen’s research is yielding new ways to interpret – and steer – AI models
A Hormuz tipping point may be days away
Agent-based model suggests delays and shortages likely to accelerate after four weeks
New LLMs are proving to be surprisingly good quants
Strides in AI’s ability to do maths mean models can plausibly help with research
The ‘addictive’ way of working behind Marex’s rapid growth
Staff are encouraged to run lots of little experiments to figure out what works – and what doesn’t
Polytechnique’s Lehalle on bottleneck models and Hormuz closure
Iran conflict raises a now-familiar problem, says quant: how to predict which goods go where
‘A new model’: Marex’s plan to take on the big banks
Non-bank challenger stepping into new businesses and new markets as incumbents retrench
Ram AI’s quest to build an agentic multi-strategy hedge fund
The Swiss fund already runs an artificial intelligence model factory and a team of agentic credit analysts
There’s a punt factor in stocks that investors might be missing
Speculative trading creates linkages between crypto and equities that vary depending on the stocks in question
Sticky fears about sticky inflation
Risk.net survey finds investors are not yet ready to declare victory on inflation – with good reason
Top 10 investment risks for 2026
AI, strained governments, inflated private assets: risky bets have become hard to avoid
Why a Trumpian world could be good for trend
Trump’s U-turns have hit returns, but the forces that put him in office could revive the investment strategy
Trend followers search for answers after a year to forget
Quants have new ideas to address strategy’s vulnerability to reversals
The options experts who think vol selling is a broken trade
Some say the equity volatility risk premium has vanished, others say it comes and goes