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23Apr

With An Interest In Quantitative Investments, Google's Eric Schmidt Takes Stake in D.E. Shaw

In 2014 rumors were flying that Google, among the world’s most successful technology companies, wanted to take its market heft and leverage it in the financial services realm.  The company recently hired former Morgan Stanley chief financial officer Ruth Porat.  With today's announcement that Google co-founder Eric Schmidt was making a "passive” investment in Sign up here

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

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