Wall Street Journal article. "The Future Is Bumpy, High-Tech Hedge Fund Hits Limits of Robot Stock Picking (posted on LMS) to answer the following questions The main difficulty Voleon faced in persuading investors to trust their new investment approach was that Multiple Choice machine learning has never been used in making investment decisions their algorithms never made any money the founders of the firm did not have university degrees in finance machine learning has never been used in making investment decisions. their algorithms never made any money. O the founders of the firm did not have university degrees in finance. they were not able to explain the details of their trading strategy Investors have become more risk averse after the financial crisis