Buy-side data heads push being on ‘right side’ of GenAI
Data heads at Man Group and Systematica Investments explain how GenAI has transformed the quant research process.
At Bloomberg’s London offices on Wednesday, heads of data at funds and banks reflected on the dramatic changes that widespread use of AI has had on internal workflows.
Tushara Fernando, head of data and machine learning at Man Group, said generative AI was the “biggest thing since the internet” and was “fundamentally changing” the way that processes were thought about and optimized at the hedge fund.
Man Group’s CTO, Gary Collier, had said in September that the firm was already seeing actionable
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