BlackRock's most mathematically minded investors are quietly becoming some of the firm's most powerful rainmakers, as a specialized group of PhDs helps turn complex models into real money. The unit's ...

With the first quarter earnings season underway, energy (XLE), materials (XLB) and technology (XLK) emerged as the lowest-rated sectors among the 11 S&P 500 (SP500) sectors, as per Seeking Alpha's ...

Few people understand the rise of quantitative financial techniques, and their limits, as well as Emanuel Derman does. The South African–born scientist earned a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics ...

In recent years, quantitative (quant) trading has gone from mysticism to being part of the everyday vocabulary of capital markets. The rapid proliferation of algorithmic trading together with trends ...

DeepSeek was created by a top Chinese quantitative trading firm. It's not unusual for Wall Street quant luminaries to try their hand at tech. Nvidia Corp. shares erased $593 billion off of their ...

The hype around generative AI (GenAI) is undeniable. Tools like ChatGPT have captivated the public imagination, demonstrating an impressive ability to generate human-like text, create content and ...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) remains one of billionaire David Shaw’s top quant stock picks owing to its reputation in the design, manufacture, and sale of smartphones, personal computers, tablets, ...

Refinitiv, an LSEG business, has announced an agreement that allows for its comprehensive suite of quantitative data to now be made available on Snowflake’s Financial Services Data Cloud. Today’s ...

The coronavirus pandemic has dealt a body blow to the quantitative model-based style of investing, with a majority of the firms using such strategies negatively impacted, a study by Refinitiv has ...