Business students call them the “quants.” They’re the people who can look at the world through a complex frame of numbers. They make investment choices based on reams of data that spin most people’s ...

Say it sotto voce, the dirty secret of hedge funds is that they mix alpha and beta as well. A typical long/short equity strategy will have a lot of beta, a fixed income arbitrage fund rather less ...

Eduardo Ariedo is a video game journalist known among friends for leading Bohemians, an Irish football club, to a Champions League title in Football Manager—just mention the game, and his eyes light ...