Winton Capital Management
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| Private | |
| Industry | Investment management |
| Founded | February 1997 |
| Headquarters | London, England |
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Key people
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David Harding |
| AUM | $32 billion as of November 2016[update] |
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Number of employees
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450 |
| Website | www |
Winton Group, Ltd (which includes Winton Capital Management) is a British investment management firm founded by David Harding. It is a quantitative investment manager whose trading decisions are guided by models developed from scientific research and mathematical analysis. In the United States, Winton is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an investment advisor and with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a CTA, and is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK. The company trades on more than 100 global futures markets in a wide variety of asset classes and on global equity markets. The firm was launched with $1.6 million in 1997 and as of November 2016[update] it held $32 billion in assets under advisement. Winton Group has nine offices around the world: London, Oxford, Hong Kong, New York, Shanghai, Sydney, San Francisco, Tokyo and Zurich.
In 1996, physicist and investment manager David Harding left Man AHL (formerly Adam, Harding and Lueck), a systematic managed futures fund and created Winton. Using Harding's middle name, the firm began trading in October 1997 with the company's flagship fund, Winton Futures Fund. When conceptualizing the firm, Harding drew inspiration from Renaissance Technologies, a Long Island, New York hedge fund management company. Winton employs statisticians, engineers and physicists, to pursue investment strategies based on scientific research and analysis.
According to Harding, Winton had difficulty attracting clients as a commodity trading advisor (CTA), because investors preferred hedge fund strategies that focused on the rather than futures contracts. However, using fees that were lower than industry standards, the firm was able to secure investors.
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