Quantitative analysis
New frontiers
Innovative investment opportunities are helping to mitigate risk and satisfy Solvency II capital requirements as insurers face continued economic uncertainty. Frederic Morlaye, managing director, insurance and capital management solutions, Global Markets…
Ping An unit prepares factor investing foray
Insurance giant’s asset management arm turns to alternative risk premia as fundamental returns in emerging markets begin to shrink
BoE: UK banks falling short on stress-test model risk
Recent guidance on stress-test models could be expanded, says BoE exec
Risk management on course to move beyond cost centre
Video Q&A: Neil Dodgson, IBM Watson Financial Services
On the offensive – Seeking a new edge, buy-side invests in portfolio and risk analytics
A fast-moving, headstrong hedge fund – hit by rare losses after a black swan event touched on an overweight country exposure – ponders adding fresh quantitative expertise. Much to traders’ chagrin, the chief investment officer and chief operating officer…
Podcast: Roos on swaptions arbitrage and benchmark reform
Benchmark reform means additional work for rates quants
Quants warn over flaws in machine learning predictions
Six quants debate whether the tool can adjust to paradigm shifts in financial markets
Deutsche adds senior quant to risk methodology team
Theis leaves role as head of market models at Standard Chartered to join German bank
QE unwind won’t spur volatility, say quants
Bond-buying schemes have “almost zero” link to volatility of stocks, says Wolfe Research
Quants needed: how finance can use power of quantum tech
New machines have big potential in AI, valuations and VAR, but tech giants like IBM need help from practitioners
Investors warm to quant tools to gauge political risk
Many funds have lost confidence in traditional ways of measuring political risk
Quant analyst Antonov to swap Numerix for Standard Chartered
New role in London only second for Numerix veteran
Machine learning is not just for the buy side
Sell-side quants develop machine learning technique to optimise margin costs
People moves: Deutsche Börse appoints UniCredit banker as new CEO
New fixed-income head at Mizuho; trueEX hires CTO; Deutsche fills ETF role; and more
Making the alternative a reality
Quant firms will have to adapt to prosper in the new datasets environment
Quants of the year: Leif Andersen, Michael Pykhtin and Alexander Sokol
Risk Awards 2018: Quants reveal hidden settlement risks – and present solutions
Quant hedge fund of the year: Man AHL
Risk Awards 2018: New roles for machine learning, frontier markets and OTC data give fund an edge
Quant research team of the year: Deutsche Bank
Risk Awards 2018: team’s data science insights ‘transformative’ say clients
Quants stymied by lack of alternative risk premia flows data
Data shortage is hampering efforts to model futures market liquidity
Acadian ends social media data ties with Microsoft Bing
Quant asset manager says it finds more use in orthodox sources of data
Updated: Quant Finance Master’s Guide 2017
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Quant Guide 2017: NYU Courant Institute
New York City, USA
Quant Guide 2017: Columbia School of Engineering
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, New York City, USA