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Alternative Data Sets Guide Better Quantitative Analysis
Alternative Data Alternative data sets are quite sought after in the quantitative investment management world. When everybody is using the same traditional metrics and means, competitive advantage lies in being able to outperform someone with a similar background. In...
Advanced Quantitative Investment Software For Wealth Managers
Financial technology is keeping up with the ever-changing pace of the modern economy. Standard investment strategies, betting on risk and opportunities are increasingly reliant on the fintech industry for their success. Market and Portfolio Analysis In the past five...
Quant Analysis – (Quietly) Breaking Down Walls
I was recently watching the movie “Moneyball” (based on the best-selling book: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis). The movie chronicles the life of Billy Beane – a figure that transformed baseball (and all sports) by raising awareness of...
QUANT – A Different (and Proliferating) Breed
And you may ask yourself: What the hell is a quant? During my time as an equity quant over the past twenty-five years, I have seen quantitative analysis grow from a specialized activity to a dominant force in the financial industry. Quants have come into their own,...
Women in Quantitative Finance talk success and partners
Speaking at this week's Women in Quantitative Finance Conference, a selection of top female quants said people with a Y chromosome had been crucial to their progress. "The biggest career boost I’ve had was thanks to a colleague, and he was a male," said Lara El...
Rocket Science making way for Rocket Artistry
Spending time amongst Quants, dubbed by Investopedia as “The Rocket Scientists of Wall Street,” has been a fascinating experience for me. Quants’ skills are formidable, their pedigrees impressive - they speak in technical languages I am still only beginning to...
Is there better Quant support somewhere?
Investment “quants” ushered in a decade of disruption to the approach to market behavior assessment. This seismic shift in investment management was the focus of the bestselling book: “The Quants” by Scott Patterson. If the top users of quants support are correct, we...
DATA: Interacting with, and analyzing it…
When the movie Minority Report came out in 2002, I was working as a VP in the Quant group at Fidelity Investments. Among all the high-tech gadgets introduced in the movie, what stood out to me the most was ease in which Tom Cruise’s character interacted with data and...
Hello Quants? Innovation Calling
Quant funds have had a rough go of things lately. Investing in the era of the pandemic has renewed talk of “paradigm shifts” and “new normals”. It is worth asking the question: Can historically-steeped, factor-based quant strategies survive in the upside-down world...
The Machine + Person Approach
In 2020 and 2021 quant funds have had a tough time of it, as algorithms struggled to navigate the whipsaw conditions created by the pandemic and has managers revisiting the Person + Machine question. The pandemic has led to significant dispersion of returns, with many...
SFS: Scientific Financial Systems raises its first round of funding
Scientific Financial Systems (SFS) has closed its first round of funding to accelerate the growth of its next generation product Quotient. "This round has come from private investors who understand the market and can see how Quotient fits into the future of financial...
Quant techniques are becoming the industry mainstay
As founder of Scientific Financial Systems I monitor the market quite closely. It is important to match our product development plan to changes in evolving industry. From day one we have built are business around the belief that quant techniques will become the prime...
Discover the future of financial data analysis
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