Who is Marshall Wace?

Hedge fund firm Marshall Wace has led a $25 million investment in crypto company 21.co, the parent of exchange-traded-product issuer 21Shares and token provider Amun, valuing the Swiss business at $2 billion.

What is Marshall Wace's alpha capture system?

Marshall Wace runs a proprietary alpha capture system TOPS ( Trade Optimised Portfolio System ), which polls the investment ideas of equity sell-side practitioners (generalists, sector specialists, strategists, and economists) around the world and uses algorithms to analyse and optimise this information into liquid equity portfolios.

What happened to the Marshall Wace hedge fund?

A Marshall Wace hedge fund that bets on rising and falling stocks slumped to a record loss in January, as the U.S. market was shaken by a short squeeze driven by retail investors.