“The investment firm of the future is going to figure out how you put [humans and machines] together in the smartest way possible.” LinkedIn’s editorial team has posted an interview with Matthew Granade, our Firm’s Chief Market Intelligence Officer and Managing Partner of Point72 Ventures. Over the past year, Matthew’s perspective on combining machine learning . . .

Point72’s Marc Desmidt, the CEO of the Firm’s International unit, told 300 of the world’s leading finance students at the London School of Economics Alternative Investments Conference that only firms and people who can attract outstanding talent to work there can succeed in an increasingly competitive landscape. Desmidt, the Firm’s fourth senior executive to deliver . . .

Team CynergisTek, consisting of two first years and one sophomore from Harvard, earned first place in the first BLK Capital 2018 National Stock Pitch Competition, presented by Point72 event last week. Leopold Bottinger, Jalen Daniels, and Morgan Ogryzek earned interviews to the Point72 Academy by virtue of their victory. “I’m a social science major, and . . .