Algorithmic Decision Making and Artificial Intelligence

Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund with $125 billion in assets under management, has been rapidly arming the firm’s AI venture from the ground up alongside co-CIO Greg Jensen, who leads a team of over twenty investors, engineers, and technologists working to integrate AI & machine learning into the firm’s investment process. Before launching Bridgewater’s AI venture.

Breaking new ground on how Bridgewater harnesses the power of AI and Machine Learning in their systematic investment process. This work focuses on deeply understanding the current state of AI and machine learning and the prospective evolution of the technology, as well as its impacts on markets and economies, to build an investment reasoning engine that can assist in the development of new research insights around how to measure interactions in markets.

The team has focused on developing Bridgewater’s systematic approach to carrying out micro equity research at scale.

We believe that this is only the beginning — it is emerging as one of the world’s experts on harnessing the power of machine learning in understanding markets and economies, and we expect it’ll lead the industry in the years to come.