New Hedge Funds Next Year Will Embrace High Tech

A person inspects a Suzhou Pangolin Robot Corp. service robot 'Alice' at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo.

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The hedge fund industry may be getting one step closer to its robot-guided future.

Seventy percent of new hedge funds that will start next year will include investment processes that use computer models, including artificial intelligence and machine-learning technologies, according to a prediction in a Deloitte report released Thursday. That’s a jump from 47 percent in 2015.