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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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