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If machines are better than human investing, is there people that use machines to select investments? I don't mean high frequency, but long-term.


Since it's a trade secret, it's hard to know exactly what they do and how much human input there is - but a couple well-known quant hedge funds are Renaissance Technologies and Two Sigma. They were both started by mathematicians/computer scientists and they manage 10s of billions.


Most of the trading done by index funds is now fully automated.




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