Quantitative analysis is a branch of financial analysis that focuses on using data and mathematical techniques to inform investment decisions. Harry Markowitz pioneered modern quantitative analysis ...

Institutional investors face complex decisions—where to allocate capital, which managers to trust, how to weather volatility. These choices can’t rely on instinct alone. They require data, structure, ...

Fixed income is a naturally quantitative asset class: the investor claims a predetermined, and thus quantifiable, stream of cash flows. This implies that greater accessibility of data and processing ...

One of the pioneers in quantitative analysis is James Simons, a mathematician who founded Renaissance Technologies in Long Island, New York, in 1982. Another is David E. Shaw, a computer scientist who ...