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advent.com | info@advent.com Geneva ® and Advent Outsourcing ServicesTM support a unique quantitative investment model Is Quantopian an innovative technology start-up or a new breed of asset manager? It’s actually both. Launched in 2011, the founders built an open source development platform on which anyone can research and create algorithms for trading strategies. “We’re crowdsourcing investment ideas for an institutional asset management product,” explains Chief Financial Officer Marc Volpe. After rigorous testing of the algorithms and due diligence on their authors, Quantopian’s research team selects strategies to trade in the firm’s 1337 Street Fund. “The fund’s mandate is an absolute return, pure alpha strategy focused only on US equities,” Marc says. “The goal i