Articles by Rob Mannix
Revival of FX carry strategy leaves quants unconvinced
Record returns in March give little comfort that strategy is ‘back’
Earnings call analysis 2.0 goes beyond good and bad words
Quants develop new ways to extract signals from media-savvy chief executives and their financial statements
Ukraine conflict reminds quants that operations matter
Quants cannot ignore real-world frictions such as sanctions and market closures
Super backwardation trips up commodity carry trade
Wrong type of curve derails quants’ commodity carry trade for worst spell in decades
Aaron Brown: war could usher in new sanctions era, hurting US
Investors must think long-term, warns risk expert; west may lose out to crypto and new financial hubs
Analysts reveal more than company execs on earnings calls – AB
Sentiment signals derived from what analysts say beat those based on bosses’ responses, say quants
Vanna and the Big Put: unusual suspects in a market mystery
US equity reversal on January 24 has spawned many theories, but no solid answers
Adia wealth fund is building supergroup of quant investing
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority wants to turn systematic investing into a ‘good science’
Green stocks will rise 8%, while energy shares slide – BlackRock
Discount rates for heaviest polluters will worsen by 50 basis points by end 2025, research suggests
How NN IP uses machines to read the market – and itself
Dutch manager being acquired by Goldman uses machine learning to ‘augment’ its analysts
Midday stock reversals becoming more common, quants say
Zig-zagging markets could spell trouble for quant strategies and dealers hedging options
Market reversals trigger losses for intraday quant strategy
Equity trend strategies designed to hedge against market drops have suffered in recent turmoil
JP Morgan testing deep hedging of exotics
Neural network trained to hedge complex options using simulated data expected to go live this year
Quants turn to single stocks to revive intraday trend strategy
Retail trading boom has made intraday single-stock strategies more viable
Investors question fixes for a quant strategy that’s stalled
Banks are revamping intraday trend strategies; buy-siders aren’t sure it’ll work
Language barrier: quants slog to teach investing bots to read
Training models to interpret text can be dull; doing it badly can be costly
New breed of NLP model learns finance better, study finds
Models trained by looking at sentences beat conventional approaches that contextualise words
EU’s new carbon-scoring metric bedevils investors
Buy-side risk survey 2021: Evic could have harmful consequences for green investing
Stock-level ‘inelasticity’ explains ESG boom, research says
Reluctance of ESG investors to sell holdings is pushing prices even higher
‘Signatures’ promise quants a tool for all jobs
Little-known mathematical technique could find applications from pricing options to sniffing out alpha signals
A quant’s view on protecting stock-pickers from themselves
Ex-Citadel, Millennium risk manager says fundamental investors have much still to improve
An old model can shed new light on how flows shape prices
Market microstructure theory may also explain long-term patterns in stock markets
Don’t fret about elevated skew, vol experts say
Extreme relative cost of tail risk hedging is driven by flows more than fear
This quant firm cut 90% of its compute costs. Here’s how
Quantbot Technologies uses ‘smart data routing’ to stop runaway spending on data and computing