Quantitative finance
WHAT IS THIS? Quantitative finance is a field of applied mathematics concerned with financial markets. In banking, it spread from the pricing of derivatives to the modelling of credit, market and operational risks. Today’s quantitative analysts are scattered across a range of functions, from risk management and model validation, to data science, algorithmic trading and regulatory compliance.
Podcast: Gordon Lee on how junior quants can go from newbie to MVP
Prioritising tasks and setting boundaries are key to career progression, says BNY’s head quant
Quant Finance Master’s Guide 2026
Risk.net’s guide to the world’s leading quant master’s programmes, with the top 25 schools ranked
Baruch, Princeton cement duopoly in 2026 Quant Master’s Guide
Columbia jumps to third place, ETH-UZH tops European rivals
Quantcast Master’s Series: Jack Jacquier, Imperial College London
A shift towards market micro-structure and ML has reshaped the programme
Want to be a quant? Here’s how (and how not) to get hired
Stay curious, be a team player, speak well – and don’t be big-headed
For tomorrow’s quants, Python is essential; AI isn’t
Proportion of PhDs in quant teams is sliding, as employers focus on all-round skills
Tomorrow’s Quants: what it takes to be a next-gen modeller
Employers increasingly prize mix of hard and soft skills, Risk.net survey reveals
Brevan Howard: life beyond macro
Talking Heads 2025: Wider range of strategies helped firm rebound from 2018 low – but brought re-correlation risks
Why know-it-all LLMs make second-rate forecasters
A bevy of experiments suggests LLMs are ill-suited for time-series forecasting
Academic warns of systemic risk from AI-powered trading
Strategies generated by LLMs exhibit “very strange, correlated trading behaviour”, says Lopez Lira
Precision-crafted: the new tools of investing
Key trends, tactics and innovations that are influencing investors’ thinking in the current environment
The future of quantitative investment
Discussion on the increasing appeal of QIS, latest trends and use cases in the Apac region
BlackRock tests ‘quantum cognition’ AI for high-yield bond picks
Study uses Qognitive machine learning model to find liquid substitutes for hard-to-trade securities
Quant Finance Master’s Guide 2025
Risk.net’s guide to the world’s leading quant master’s programmes, with the top 25 schools ranked
Baruch maintains top spot in 2025 Quant Master’s Guide
Sorbonne reclaims top spot among European schools, even as US salaries decouple
Quantum two-sample test for investment strategies
Quantum algorithms display high discriminatory power in the classification of probability distributions
Quant of the year: Julien Guyon
Risk Awards 2025: Volatility modeller par excellence (and football fan) achieved breakthrough with joint calibration of S&P and Vix options
The curious case of the revealing orders
Oxford academics have found evidence pointing to collusion on a European exchange, but market-makers aren’t wholly convinced
Form an orderly QIS: hedge funds spur quant products to new heights
Rise of multi-strategy vehicles triggers demand for indexes once seen as competitors
Quants are using language models to map what causes what
GPT-4 does a surprisingly good job of separating causation from correlation
The quants who kicked the hornets’ nest – to champion causality
A small but influential cadre says the multi-trillion-dollar factor investing industry is based on flawed science