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DATA: Interacting with, and analyzing it…
When the movie Minority Report came out in 2002, I was working as a VP in the Quant group at Fidelity Investments. Among all the high-tech gadgets introduced in the movie, what stood out to me the most was ease in which Tom Cruise’s character interacted with data and...
Hello Quants? Innovation Calling
Quant funds have had a rough go of things lately. Investing in the era of the pandemic has renewed talk of “paradigm shifts” and “new normals”. It is worth asking the question: Can historically-steeped, factor-based quant strategies survive in the upside-down world...
The Machine + Person Approach
In 2020 and 2021 quant funds have had a tough time of it, as algorithms struggled to navigate the whipsaw conditions created by the pandemic and has managers revisiting the Person + Machine question. The pandemic has led to significant dispersion of returns, with many...
SFS: Scientific Financial Systems raises its first round of funding
Scientific Financial Systems (SFS) has closed its first round of funding to accelerate the growth of its next generation product Quotient. "This round has come from private investors who understand the market and can see how Quotient fits into the future of financial...
Quant techniques are becoming the industry mainstay
As founder of Scientific Financial Systems I monitor the market quite closely. It is important to match our product development plan to changes in evolving industry. From day one we have built are business around the belief that quant techniques will become the prime...
Discover the future of financial data analysis
Watch a demonstration of Quotient™, our flagship financial data analysis product.