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There was a time when man group was at the cutting edge of investment strategies.
A pioneer in the city of London.
So look, back in the 90s,
man group were essentially these cool nerds that were using mathematical models,
lots of data, to make bets that were decided by these models in computers, not by individuals.
That's the FT's hedge fund correspondent, Costas Morsalis.
A lot of people were still thinking about trading in more old-fashioned terms,
like a street smart trader calling up their broker to buy a stock or shouting buy and sell orders on the floor of a physical exchange.
Man was doing things differently.
What Costas is referring to is quant trading,
an investment strategy that uses mathematical and statistical models executed by computers to make trading decisions.
And that was very untested territory, and it fast became the hottest area of finance.
But some 30 years on, man group is in a very different place.