Is Man AHL Making Derivatives Industry History, Again?

London-based Man AHL has seen the machine learning future and it is more a 3-D experience than black and white. One of the early trend following adaptors – who is credited with spawning the likes of David Harding of Winton Capital, the H in AHL – Man AHL is an heir to derivatives industry royalty. But one of the early quantitative investment firms is also making headlines as it works on the cutting edge of machine learning. The firm was the first known CTA strategy practitioners to have turned machine learning into a profitable endeavor, CNBC's Leslie Pickar and Juliaane Funk first reported. In a September note to investors, the firm’s portfolio strategy head, Graham Robertson, teams with...