Vladimir de Vassal, CFA, is director of quantitative research for Glenmede.
His first job at a high-frequency trading operation was as a quantitative research analyst at Citadel, a giant Chicago hedge fund, which he joined in early 2009.
David Mechner, CEO of Pragma Securities, said this study is significant because it is the first quantitative research to show how HFT profits may come at the expense of investors.
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Still, the company has attracted at least one major detractor with a big megaphone: Barry Ritholtz, an asset manager who runs a quantitative research firm and founder of the well-trafficked blog The Big Picture.
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Besides securing the brightest minds in sports management, finance, economics, information technology and mathematics, Major League Baseball would be targeting exceptional individuals with an affinity for baseball as well as the capabilities to conduct quantitative research.
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But to tackle issues related to ethics in finance, he teamed up with two colleagues: Andrew Kumiega, an engineer who develops quantitative research models for an asset manager, and Ben Van Vliet, who teaches quantitative finance when not consulting for the financial industry.
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Following a 30-year academic career, he founded quantitative investment research firm Haugen Custom Financial Systems, designed mainly for institutional investors.
Campbell Mithun partnered with Carbonview Research to conduct a quantitative study on consumer attitudes about sharing this past January.
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"There are a lot of nuances you may be missing by focusing only on style and size, " says Savita Subramanian, head of equity and quantitative strategy at BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research.
For Chris Johnson , managing quantitative analyst at Schaeffer's Investment Research, publisher of Bernie Schaeffer's Option Advisor, the overarching and ominous theme is the head-and-shoulders top the market seems to have formed over the last four years.
An experienced active manager can effectively reduce these risks with quantitative tools, a valuation discipline, fundamental research and portfolio optimization techniques.
The study, conducted by research firm InsightsNow, combines qualitative, quantitative and ethnographic methods, and tracked user behavior and clickstreams in the US, across mobile web, apps, and other mobile services.
Janice describes 3 kinds of user research: generative, evolutionary, and quantitative.
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Working exclusively in baseball operations, the scholars will conduct extensive research that will challenge them to rely on their quantitative backgrounds as well as their newfound knowledge in scouting.
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Martin Barnes of Bank Credit Analyst, a research firm, points out that the direction of official policy (low rates, quantitative easing, big deficits) looks inflationary but the economic fundamentals (a big output gap, sluggish credit growth) look deflationary.
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Richard Segarra, director of research for Ford, says several home builders, including Toll, still pass the quantitative model he uses, but that when the next issue comes out at the end of the month, there's a chance that some of the builders will no longer qualify as buys.
With no hints of stimulus or quantitative easing, gold had nothing to pull it higher, said Sterling Smith, vice president, commodity research, Citibank Institutional Client Group.
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The research departments of a number of investment banks have said they see potential for a third round of quantitative easing down the road, assuming U.S. economic data remains soft.
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