Quant
Quant grad conveyor belt stalls as banks retrench
Jobs market is long quant graduates, short vacancies – but hiring freeze shows signs of thawing
Jarrow and co find a better way to spot stock market bubbles
Quant team’s options-based approach avoids pitfalls of historical data dependence
Rough volatility’s steampunk vision of future finance
Some of the trickiest puzzles in finance could be solved by blending old and new technologies
Amundi puts a Darwinian spin on bond portfolio rebalancing
‘Genetic’ algorithm picks bonds to buy or sell from quadrillions of possible combinations
Put options power up variable annuities
Insurance quants increase risk-adjusted profits using novel hedging technique
Seismology models sound out safe ground for DG Partners
Quake technology helps quant firm time entry and exit points – and buck trend-following trend
Union beckons for the three quant tribes
Studies may be deferred, but future for grads is bright, argues UBS’s Gordon Lee
Quant Finance Master’s Guide 2021
Risk.net’s guide to the world’s leading quant master’s programmes, with the top 25 schools ranked
Model misfires raise questions over training data
Quants wrestle with how far into the past their machine learning models should peer
Quants tout alternative carry trades for the ‘new normal’
Low rates and flatlining yield curves leave investors seeking carry in swaps and swaptions
Whales or minnows? Sizing up crowded trades
Strategies for measuring crowding in trades can help to avoid its effect, writes quant fund founder
Fund managers seek to plug holes in ESG data
Social intel proves elusive as virus reawakens sense of corporate virtue
Asia quant house of the year: UBS
Asia Risk Awards 2020
NYU’s Epstein on fear and complacency in the age of Covid
Pioneer of agent-based models warns of virus resurgence akin to 1918 Spanish flu
For a post-Covid world, quant fund revives a contentious idea
Crisis puts out-of-vogue practice of “porting” alpha back in play
Quant finance courses tested by Covid’s echoing classrooms
Universities fret over drop in international students and demands of online learning
Quant firm deploys new metric for Covid sensitivity
Los Angeles Capital debuts new factor for measuring stocks’ sensitivity to the pandemic
Doyne Farmer’s next big adventure: capturing the universe
Quant fund pioneer plans to build an economic super-simulator on a global scale
Two quants use options pricing tools to model Covid-19
New tool aims to gauge wider cost of virus control measures
Alt risk premia chasing 'tail beta' – again
Quant strategies that failed in the coronavirus crash face a reckoning
Safe havens no longer safe, quants fear
Equity-debt correlation breakdown and negative bond yields make investors nervous
Some quants fear more deleveraging to come
Buy-siders brace for further selling after hedge funds dumped risk in March
Lighting up the black box: a must for investors?
Many contend you must be able to interpret machine learning in order to use it
At Numerai, real-world figures need not apply
AI hedge fund CEO sees the light in black-box technology