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Insights into the World of Quants | Marko Momentum

From November 4 to 6, The Quant Conference took place in online format for the first time. This article summarises the topics and...

Optimal Bet Sizing in a Game with Favourable Odds: The Stock Market |Victor Haghani and Andy Morton

Victor Haghani and Andy Morton 2016 A thought experiment You can invest your wealth in only two assets: a risk-free one and a market...

Crisis Alpha, Reflexivity & ‘Anti-diversification’ | Savvy Investor

In our most recent guest blog for the Quant Conference, we discussed ‘The Pursuit of Edge’ and how the quest for alpha for today’s quants...

The Pursuit of Edge | Savvy Investor

The Pursuit of Edge In our most recent guest blog for the Quant Conference, we discussed ‘The Evolution of Quant Strategies.’ In that...

The Evolution of Quant Strategies | Savvy Investor

In recent years, the demand for quant-based investment products by professional investors has increased at a stellar rate. Today, the...

The Alt Data Revolution: Tackling stakeholder asymmetry | Ali Saif

Introduction As the old adage goes: “Knowledge is power”. We need only look back in time for context. From merchants capitalizing on...

The buzz behind alternative data | Saeed Amen

Alternative data is one of those market buzzwords. The first step is to define precisely what we mean by alternative data. In practice,...

What you don't know counts | Professor David Hand

Society is changing more rapidly than at any time in the past, as a consequence of the data revolution and its attendant technologies....

Inspirations from Biology: Genetic Algorithms

Genetic algorithms (GAs) belong to a larger class of evolutionary algorithms and are based on the concepts of natural selection that were...

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