Investment Management

The D. E. Shaw group invests capital through a broad array of financial instruments. Over the course of many hundred person-years of analytical and experimental research, the firm has developed mathematical and computational techniques which underpin many of its investment activities. As a result, certain of the firm’s trading strategies employ the identification of statistically robust inefficiencies.

In addition to its quantitative strategies, the D. E. Shaw group also deploys a significant portion of its capital in strategies based on qualitative analysis. This includes strategies that invest in distressed securities, in energy, and in certain public and private equities based on the analysis of financial and operational data of individual companies. Whether an investment opportunity is identified by quantitative or qualitative means, or through a combination of both, the firm applies its own unparalleled approach to risk for each investment.