Quant fund aims to tame bitcoin, and 39 other digital assets
Ex-Morgan Stanley, Winton vets reimagine institutional risk management for volatile crypto markets
To adapt a well-known expression: when Elon Musk sneezes, bitcoin catches a cold.
A series of tweets from the Tesla tycoon have contributed to a plunge in the value of cryptocurrencies in recent weeks. Bitcoin has shed around half a trillion dollars from its notional market capitalisation since its April peak.
Cambrian Asset Management, a quantitative investment manager with $160 million in assets, is one firm trying to build a systematic trading strategy and risk management process to handle
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