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Man Group’s quant equity unit says it has begun using a new artificial-intelligence system that can generate, code and backtest trading ideas — marking the arrival of agentic AI at the world’s largest listed hedge fund.
“One of the challenges we’re facing as quant researchers these days is an information avalanche,” said Fang, referring to an abundance of data sets and academic papers. “The idea is can we build some kind of agentic workflow to really leverage these things and automate more complex tasks in quant research that were previously impossible to do.”
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