July 9, 2026

Quant fund Qube is hiring human stock pickers to sit beside its algorithms

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Qube Research & Technologies, one of London’s largest quantitative hedge funds, is doing something that would once have looked heretical for a firm built on code: it is hiring humans to pick stocks. The move, reported by Business Insider, places...