quant

Examples

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• Many of the financial quants on Wall Street are theoretical physicists by training.

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• As a quant, she developed complex algorithms to forecast market trends.

• And I was hired as a quant and I had not studied computer science or programming.

• I think it was actually Neil, Chris, a very well known quant hedge fund manager who put us in touch.

• When I went over to the dark side and became a quant, I worked at GMO for quite a while before I retired.

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• Managers need to be equipped to ask the quants the right questions.

  Academic text (2009)

• They made outsized returns at a time when there were very few quant traders.

• There are a lot of people that want to become quants or they want to work in Wall Street, and there's all kinds of things that you need to learn.

• With more oversight and better management at the investment firms, and more intelligent regulation, it's possible to create an environment in which the Quants and their programs enable liquidity and productivity, with reduced volatility.

  Academic text (2009)

• If the compensation for modelers depended on the long-term performance of their models, the Quants might very well develop models that prized steady growth over short-term dazzle.

  Academic text (2009)

Synonyms

E

econometrician

vsquant

• Specialized

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A person who uses math and statistics to study data about money and business

focuses on financial markets and builds strategies for trading

E

econometrist

vsquant

• Specialized

9.9

A person who uses math and numbers to study the economy

focuses on market analysis and creating trading strategies

How Specialized

quant

• Jargon

5 9.3

market strategist

1 4.3

financial analyst

9 3.9

analyst

355 3.2

Surface Forms

Etymology