Are Quants really a smoke screen in RT? (It is rumored they make money the good ol' way: fundamental and technical analysis).
Suss------ask the guy if RenTech's strategies are all based on the concept of "regression to the mean".
Question: In a Bloomberg article from June 2007 Simons was quoted "'trend-following is not such a good model. It's simply eroded.' Why/How did they launch a futures fund (which I presume is a long-term trend follower in liquid futures since they say it's designed to run up to $50bln) in October of the same year and allegedly collect $5bln in investors money in record time?
Ahem... this is ET, for serious input I suggest you visit this place: http://www.nuclearphynance.com/Show Post.aspx?PostIDKey=4851 Unless of course you enjoy seeing the RenTec dude ROFLHAO. PS. Do you seriously expect any spilling of the beans so to speak?