Inside the New Quant Gold Rush, Bond Traders Get Rich By Coding – Financial Advisor

After years of tiptoeing around systematic styles in debt markets, investors are starting to believe in the promise — ushering in a new world of advanced statistics and robot-learning. About 70% of institutional and 78% of wholesale investors reckon the strategy of dissecting securities by their factors, like value and momentum, are applicable to fixed income, according to a study by Invesco Ltd.