Imperial College London
Starting salaries jump for top quant grads
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UK seeks to take the lead on climate risk standards
New research centre intended to help UK financial firms build better climate risk models
Global investing under water? – Climate change could leave equities exposed
As impending global changes brought about by climate change loom, one issue in particular threatens to cause massive losses to institutional investors – rising sea levels. David Lunsford and Boris Prahl, of MSCI, explore where, despite the efforts of…
A sea change – Driving awareness to confront climate risk
Amid a global push towards green policies, the reality of overhauling how industries worth trillions of dollars operate is causing concern. A forum of market participants and sponsors of this report discuss the levels of awareness of climate risk and its…
Quant Guide 2020: top programmes lean on alumni networks
For top schools, some of the most important students are the ones that have already graduated
Quant Guide 2020: programmes tap banks for teaching talent
Unis are adding machine learning and data science courses, but need instructors to teach them
Quant Guide 2020: Imperial College London
London, UK
Princeton tops Risk.net Quant Guide for second year running
UK’s Imperial ranks sixth; first university from mainland China features
Show don’t tell: BoE’s climate stress test dilemma
Making the test easier to run could come at the expense of building risk management capacity
Dark materials: how one academic is delving into data
David Hand shines a light on dark data and the dangers of distortion by absence
Rising star in quant finance: Blanka Horvath, Aitor Muguruza and Mehdi Tomas
Risk Awards 2020: New machine learning techniques bring ‘rough volatility’ models to life
No alpha in hedge funds’ average short positions – research
A strategy betting against low conviction shorts beat a benchmark model by 6% in back tests
Quant Guide 2019: Imperial College London
London, UK
Neural network learns ‘universal model’ for stock-price moves
Relationships between order flow and price “are stable through time and across stocks and sectors”
Podcast: Brigo on derivatives, AI, machine learning and more
Genuine artificial intelligence remains "very, very far away", says Imperial College's Brigo
Quants head for the shop floor
Demand for technical skills is growing, but roles have changed – and some schools are not keeping up
Academics warn against overuse of machine learning
Lack of data makes AI technology unsuitable for risk management, say Cont and Rebonato
‘A choreographed ballet’: academics attack CVA
Derivatives add-on rubbished by Cont and Rebonato
Winton sees problems with big data analytics
Social media and live newsfeeds not so far useful, hedge fund says
Op risk modelling for extremes
Part 2: Statistical methods In this second of two articles, Rodney Coleman, of Imperial College London, continues his demonstration of the uncertainty in measuring operational risk from small samples of loss data.