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Julien Kockelkoren, our Head of Trading Research was pleased to present our 2023 Data Challenge at Collège de France. To take part in our Challenge Data event about the prediction of daily stock end-of-day movements, please find out more here: challengedata.ens.fr/challenges/84

We were delighted to welcome 6 school students to learn about @quantitativefinance and the roles and opportunities at CFM, in partnership with ViensVoirMonTaf who do great work helping students without connections, to find internships and opportunities viensvoirmontaf.fr

Wishing you peace and joy this holiday season and a happy 2023 from all at CFM.

We believe in internships and were pleased to join the charity Viens Voir Mon Taf to present our options for school children in December. They do great work helping students without connections find internships that offer the right experiences. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

We welcome Benjamin Roy as our new CTO. He will build upon our technology and research platform with a focus on investment and innovation in key areas from machine learning to cloud computing, to support our data-driven investment strategies. cfm.fr/insights/cfm-h…

We are delighted to have won Management Firm of the Year in HFM’s European Performance Awards 2022. We have also been awarded the CTA/Managed Futures Multi-Strategy award for our Stratus program. Click here for more details: …thintelligenceawards.evessiocloud.com/hfmeuropeanper…

In the latest edition of CFM Talks to... we are delighted to have Megan Greene discuss a range of topics from central banks’ current predicament to geopolitics and the challenges facing emerging markets. Read the full interview here: cfm.fr/insights/cfm-t…

We are actively looking for a Quantitative Developer specialized in #Python and #DataScience. If you are interested in working in a stimulating quantitative trading environment with passionate developers, apply here to join our team: linkedin.com/jobs/view/3144…

Our Chief Product Officer Laurent Laloux and Alexios Beveratos, our Head of Stat Arb Alpha, held a masterclass at Neudata on the rigorous testing and analysis of data sets conducted by a quantitative asset manager. linkedin.com/posts/neudata_…

Thanks to all our CFM heroes who completed La Course des Héros collecting donations for the Fondation Raoul Follereau, a charity fighting against any form of exclusion linked to sickness, ignorance and poverty. Click here for more details about their work: raoul-follereau.org

More good news! We are delight to have received The Hedge Fund Journal CTA and Discretionary Trader Award 2022 for Systematic Fundamental Macro (AUM$100m-$500m) Best Performing Fund over 2 yrs for our CFM Systematic Global Macro program. For more details: thehedgefundjournal.com/the-hedge-fund…

Drawing on 20 years of market impact research at CFM, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud publishes his latest academic paper on the inelastic market hypothesis. Read his recent post and access the report here: linkedin.com/posts/jean-phi…

We are delighted that our CFM Discus program has received the Best Performing Fund award over 5 & 7 years in The Hedge Fund Journal CTA and Discretionary Trader Awards 2022, Short-Term Trader (AUM >$500M) category. For more details: thehedgefundjournal.com/the-hedge-fund…

Part 2 of our whitepaper on Inflationary Regimes and Asset Class Performance is out now, focusing on the Convexity of Trend Following and concluding that trend following may be a suitable hedge against high levels of inflation. Read the whitepaper here: cfm.fr/insights/infla…

We are delighted to partner with Girls Who Code. Women are under-represented in the alternative investment sectors and Girls Who Code educates, mentors, and inspires young women into STEM careers. Click here for more details of this important work girlswhocode.com

Philip Seager, our Head of Absolute Return, spoke on a panel discussion on geopolitical risk at an alternative data event sponsored by us and the Program for Economic Research (PER) at Columbia University's Department of Economics - events.columbia.edu/cal/event/show…

CFM's president Philippe Jordan spoke to the Financial Times about the macro backdrop for futures trading as the FT reports on the widening gap between the best and worst performing hedge funds. Read the full article here ft.com/content/a1bffa…

Nadya Prashad, a Director in our North America Investor Relations team, spoke on the importance of gender diversity recently at a Women in Alternatives seminar run by the CFA Society New York. View the replay to hear the panel discussion: cfany.org/women-in-alter…

Laurent Laloux our Chief Product Officer spoke to Hedgeweek about the role of technology and alternative data in hedge funds and specifically in a quantitative and systematic approach to investing. Read the special report from Hedgeweek here: hedgeweek.com/special/tech-r…

We're delighted to receive the 2022 Investors Choice Award in EMEA in the following categories: Multi-Strategy Fund for our Stratus strategy, Global Macro Fund Under $500m for SGM strategy, and Global Equity Fund Under $100m for our QUASAR UCITS strategy. investorschoiceawards.com/emea-20221.html