{
  "id": 637772,
  "title": "China’s quant funds have an edge on foreign rivals, even as Beijing curbs trading speed",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/chinas-quant-funds-have-an-edge-on-foreign-rivals-even-as-beijing-637772",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-12T05:00:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SCMP Business",
    "slug": "scmp-business",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3363610/chinas-quant-funds-have-edge-foreign-rivals-even-beijing-curbs-trading-speed"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "China’s quantitative funds have built trading strategies so closely tailored to the mainland market that foreign rivals cannot replicate them, even as a regulatory clampdown on trading speed reshapes the industry, according to a prominent economist. “If a top US quant team goes to Japan or India, they can beat virtually all the native quants,” Xia Chun, founder and chief economist at Chinese…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}