Essentia Analytics' Flynn Levy: Solving the active management paradox for good

"I am very black and white that way - I do not want to waste my time," she told Investment Week. "But, I wanted to maximise my return on the energy I had already expended." Flynn Levy, who founded and managed a European long/short technology fund and invested throughout the dotcom boom and bust, said market dynamics changed significantly in the early 2000s and she found her investment process and philosophy "was not working any more". However, in the absence of information, the way she managed money stayed the same. "You read more, you work more, you stay up later into the night; y...