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The Quants is the debut New York Times best selling book by Wall Street journalist Scott Patterson. [1] [2] It was released on February 2, 2010 by Crown Business.The book describes the world of quantitative analysis and the various hedge funds that use the technique.
Quantitative strategies are offered in different type of fund structures: Hedge fund. The first quantitative funds were offered as hedge funds and not available to a broad public. The goal of those funds is to earn an absolute return with little constraints and freedom to apply leverage, shorting and derivatives. Mutual fund. With the ...
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (2010) is a financial book by Sebastian Mallaby published by Penguin Press. [1] [2] Mallaby's work has been published in the Financial Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic Monthly as columnist, editor and editorial board member.
The book follows people who believed the housing bubble was going to burst—including Meredith Whitney, who predicted the demise of Citigroup and Bear Stearns; Steve Eisman, an outspoken hedge fund manager; Greg Lippmann, a Deutsche Bank trader; Eugene Xu, a quantitative analyst who created the first CDO market by matching buyers and sellers ...
A book about Simons and his investing methods, The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman, was released November 5, 2019. [52] He was awarded honorary doctorates by York University [ 91 ] and the University of Edinburgh [ 92 ] in 2016, and Trinity College Dublin [ 93 ] in 2018.
AQR Capital Management (short for Applied Quantitative Research) is a global investment management firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States.The firm, which was founded in 1998 by Cliff Asness, David Kabiller, John Liew, and Robert Krail, offers a variety of quantitatively driven alternative and traditional investment vehicles to both institutional clients and financial advisors.
Dynamics of the Hedge Fund Industry. ISBN 0-943205-72-7. Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-691-13294-5. International Library of Financial Econometrics. Vol. I– V. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 2007. with MacKinlay, A. Craig (1999). A Non-Random Walk Down Wall ...
Jaffray Piers Woodriff (born April 8, 1969, in Virginia) is the co-founder and CEO of Quantitative Investment Management (QIM), a $1 billion hedge fund. Woodriff founded QIM with Michael Geismar and Greyson Williams [1] in 2003. [2] Woodriff attended the University of Virginia from 1987 to 1991. [3]