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Olga Kane @arkanealpha

Managing director at a machine learning hedge fund.

Joined February 2017
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Olga Kane@arkanealpha
13 Mar 2023
Y Combinator to End Late-Stage Fund, Lays Off Staff. The decision is due to a sharp pullback in venture funding, particularly for late stage after the value of public tech comps have fallen. According to YC, the move was not connected to the SVB implosion.
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Citadel is negotiating an enterprise license to use ChatGPT to translate software between languages to analyze data. bit.ly/3kWyUNV

Citadel Negotiating Enterprise-Wide ChatGPT License, Griffin Says

Ken Griffin said his firms are in the process of negotiating an enterprise-wide license to use OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool.

bloomberg.com
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Bill Ackman
@BillAckman
23 Sep 2022
Doesn’t it make more sense to moderate wage inflation with increased immigration than by raising rates, destroying demand, putting people out of work, and causing a recession?
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Synthesis has been shortlisted for Hedgeweek US Awards 2022 in the Best Performing Statistical Arbitrage Strategy category. Voting is now open online research.net/r/HWUSAwards Nominations are based on performance ranking data provided by Bloomberg (ticker SYNTABS KY).
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Olga Kane@arkanealpha
26 Feb 2022
bit.ly/3IsQrUk Synthesis named among finalists in the Institutional Investor’s 2022 Hedge Fund Industry Awards. Allocators are invited to vote for the nominees bit.ly/3Is7C8G The winners will be revealed at a gala dinner and ceremony on April 27.
Olga Kane@arkanealpha
15 Feb 2022
According to the new report by AIMA and With Intelligence bit.ly/3JoYZeQ, hedge fund net flows reached $25bn, compared with outflows of $15bn in 2020 and outflows of $17bn in 2019.
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bit.ly/3LcvJdj Performance during the January sell-off. AQR Absolute Return made 15%, Citadel Wellington was up 4.7%, Balyasny made 2.6%. Millennium was up 1.65% Third Point was down 10%, Tiger Global lost 14.8%, PDT lost 7%, Point72 was down 1.3%.
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Olga Kane@arkanealpha
17 Jan 2022
Hot fintech trends 2022:⠀ - Democratized AI - Embedded finance - Neobanks - DeFi re-architecting - Cryptofication of incumbent financial institutions - Creator economy fintech - Payment processing for metaverse #ai #nft #fintech #neobank #crypto
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Insider's collection of pitch decks fintech founders used to sell their vision to VC investors. bit.ly/3BuyhNz

Fintech pitch deck library: How more than 60 startups raised millions in funding from top investors

Here are the pitch decks that fintechs used to raise millions of dollars, from seed rounds to Series D.

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Olga Kane@arkanealpha
26 Jul 2021
Even as the stimulus check giveaway fades and the stay-at-home era peaks, the Reddit-fueled, Robinhood-powered retail crowd remains a force to be reckoned with bloom.bg/3kYC413
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Olga Kane@arkanealpha
12 Jul 2021
Client notes from both Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. showed that fundamental stock-picking hedge funds posted negative alpha YTD. U.S.-based stock-picking hedge funds gained an average 5.8% in H1 2021, according to Morgan Stanley. on.wsj.com/3r5EoEr

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“We are exploring opportunities around blockchain technology and its transformative and disruptive capabilities,” Point72 said in a May letter to investors seen by Bloomberg. bloom.bg/3waK0hU

Point72 Seeks Crypto Head While Soros Starts Bitcoin Trading

Some of the biggest names in the hedge fund industry are wading deeper into crypto.

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Hudson River Trading is planning to compete with Citadel and Virtu in retail wholesaler business on.wsj.com/3qJgIG2
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Olga Kane@arkanealpha
30 Jun 2021
Robinhood will pay $57mln, the highest fine ever levied by FINRA, plus nearly $13 mln in restitution to thousands of clients for its systemwide outages and misleading communication and trading practices. cnb.cx/3jwEH9I

Robinhood to pay $70 million for outages and misleading customers, the largest-ever FINRA penalty

FINRA said it fined Robinhood $57 million and ordered the stock trading app to pay nearly $13 million in restitution to thousands of clients.

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Olga Kane@arkanealpha
25 Jun 2021
Virtu is joining Pyth Network, a #DeFi market data distribution platform. Jump Trading joined the platform in April and GTS earlier this month. bloom.bg/3w175TP

Virtu Joins Jump Trading, GTS in Decentralized Finance Push

Some of the world’s most sophisticated traders are giving everyday investors unprecedented access to their turbocharged data feeds via the blockchain, hoping to get in on the ground floor of a...

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Olga Kane@arkanealpha
24 Jun 2021
Under Rule 612, exchanges can only display stock prices in fractions of a cent if a security is trading at less than $1 per share. Mr. Tenev said if sub-penny limitations are removed, "we could see...perhaps more retail order flow executed on lit markets." on.wsj.com/35NpV6m

Robinhood Calls for Stocks to Be Quoted in Hundredths of a Penny

The chief executive of Robinhood Markets Inc. waded in Thursday to the ongoing debate surrounding off-exchange trading, saying that financial regulators should allow public stock exchanges to quote...

wsj.com
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Olga Kane@arkanealpha
24 Jun 2021
Brevan Howard Asset Management has stopped accepting new cash into its two biggest multi-manager funds after the firm’s record year of performance bloom.bg/3qnuCgJ
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Joel Cohen
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24 Jun 2021
emergingmanagers.org/100-new… First 25 new fund manager mistakes posted. To help me get this to 100 , pls: 1) retweet 2) tag a few smart people you'd like to see respond with a mistake/insight from starting their fund Comment here or reply to tweet forms.gle/Uvqaa82ieN5J5uCP9
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Olga Kane@arkanealpha
21 Jun 2021
Inspired by the success of ARKK, ETF issuers have this year launched 115 active products vs 51 passive funds. A record 22 thematic funds have launched since the start of the year. bloom.bg/3zGZME2
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