A simple recipe: The greatest ingredients in the complex melting pot of strategies are basic ones

The diversity of approaches taken by managers within the sector is one of its key strengths. Undeniably, the sector's somewhat opaque name also leads to confusion about precisely what each strategy is trying to achieve, and how they go about it.  We broadly think about the sector as a collection of three sub-sectors: quantitative/systematic, alternative, and traditional. At Latitude Investment Management, we sit firmly in the last category.  Many funds deploy quantitative or systematic strategies, often using a long-short equity or relative value approach to time markets and genera...