Showing posts with label institutional. Show all posts
Showing posts with label institutional. Show all posts

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Quant funds are shrinking

Not only are retail investors retreating from the stock market, but so are the "smartest-guys-in-the-room" quant funds. It appears the smart money lost big in 2008.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/business/20quant.html?_r=2&dbk


With fewer retail and institutional participants, any liquidity-induced market rallies will be short-lived and shallow, in my opinion.