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Placing faith and funds in wisdom of a robot

A growing number of investors are leaning on algorithms to sort the wheat from the chaff from mountains of data.

Published Fri, Apr 15, 2016 · 09:50 PM

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    New York

    CRACKER Barrel Old Country Store, the company behind a chain of down-home restaurants, might not seem an obvious model for advanced financial technology. Its speciality is vintage: vintage food and, in its gift shops, vintage toys and vintage music in the form of hymnal CDs.

    Yet an upstart fund manager called Arabesque Partners has determined that Cracker Barrel is among the most attractive investments out there in a special category that takes into account environmental, social and governance factors - known in the industry as ESG.

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