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Original thinking on quantitative hiring and trading technology.
Longer-form commentary on quantitative research, portfolio construction, trading, technology and talent. We look at how work is assessed, how research reaches live markets and where hiring decisions become difficult.
Featured · Quant Research
Research Taste May Be the Hardest Quant Skill to Hire For
Technical ability can be tested. Research judgement is harder. The difference often lies in knowing which questions are worth pursuing in the first place.
· 6 min
Systematic Investing
What Changes When a Quant Researcher Starts Owning Risk
The move from quantitative research to portfolio management is not simply a promotion. It changes the job from producing evidence to making decisions while capital is exposed and the evidence remains incomplete.
· 6 min
Quant Trading
Execution Can Change the Value of the Research
A predictive signal is not the same thing as a profitable trade. Between research and realised PnL sit liquidity, timing, transaction costs, market impact and the quality of execution.
· 6 min
Quant Research
Why Capacity Belongs in Every Senior Quant Hiring Conversation
A strategy can be statistically attractive and still have limited commercial value at scale. For senior quantitative hires, understanding capacity is part of understanding the research itself.
· 6 min
Systematic Investing
The Hidden Bottleneck in Quant Research Is Often Feedback Speed
The number of ideas a research team can generate matters less if it takes too long to discover which ideas are actually worth pursuing.
· 6 min
Quant Research
What Failed Research Can Tell You About a Quant Researcher
Every candidate can prepare their best success story. Research that failed often reveals considerably more about how they actually think.
· 5 min
Quant Research
Bad Data Can Look Surprisingly Similar to Alpha
In systematic investing, the ability to distinguish an unusual observation from a broken one is not a data-cleaning detail. It is part of the research problem.
· 6 min
Talent Markets
Finance Experience Is Becoming a Weaker First Filter for Quant Talent
Some of the strongest quantitative firms openly recruit researchers from outside finance. The harder question is not where someone worked, but whether their skills transfer to the problems markets create.
· 6 min