Quant drought hits banks and funds in Asia

The shallow end — Asia’s quantitative finance talent pool lacks depth

Blake Evans-Pritchard
Narayanan Somasundaram
21 Oct 2018

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From Singapore to Seoul, financial firms are hunting for an elusive breed of professional: the quant. As banks across Asia move to bolster their pricing and modelling teams, and passive management strategies in local buy-side firms proliferate, quantitative finance executives are in high demand.

The snag is there aren’t enough of them to go round.

“[In Asia] both the buy side and the sell side are facing the problem of a quant shortage,” says George Hong, head of Asia-Pacific quantitative

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