The Hedgefunds stars have celebrated

THE HEDGEFUNDS STARS HAVE CELEBRATED by MARTIN GERTH , FRANK DOLL and TIM RAHMANN | AUG 01, 2017 The billionaire superstars of the hedge fund industry are no longer able to build on the successes of the financial crisis. Investors trust their money rather computer nerds than party-wasting bankers. The 18 tennis courts of the Fisher Island off the coast … Read more

Battle for a Trading Edge

BATTLE FOR A TRADING EDGE Here’s a hypothetical example: Imagine a super computer that could go through all the masses of data available about a particular company – its prospects, its leadership, its rivals, the sector, the economic backdrop – synthesize all that information and make an intelligent decision on whether to invest your money … Read more

London Summit and Battle of the Quants

LONDON SUMMIT & BATTLE OF THE QUANTS by ANNA REITMAN | OCT 27, 2016 If anyone thinks speed is dead, says Graeme Burnett, a high-performance computing expert, then best they look for a career outside of the financial markets. FX is becoming a world of stream computing, FPGA, GPUs, and an evolving computer architecture that is constantly advancing new … Read more

Beyond the ‘Battle of the Quants’: The Art of Big Data

by JAMES GRUNDVIG | MAY 16, 2014 In the last dozen years there have been many discoveries on evolution: blond hair came into existence around 20,000 years ago, the spoken language in 15,000 BCE, written language about 6,000 years ago. And just this week, scientists analyzing the DNA record of people in Europe announced that the … Read more

Nine years of stimulating quantitative debate and education

by HAMLIN LOVELL | JULY 30, 2013 Bartt Kellermann, a former IBM Executive, Day Trader and hedge fund capital raiser, spotted a vacuum of quant-only conferences in the hedge fund space, and so the Battle of the Quants Worldwide was born. Mr Kellermann synthesised his experience and talents in each of his former disciplines (technology, finance … Read more