If you had walked onto a trading floor thirty years ago, you would have heard noise before you saw anything. Phones ringing, ...

Back in 2013, Bloomberg’s world-class quantitative researchers were looking for an alternative to MATLAB, a programming and numeric computing platform for analyzing data, developing algorithms, and ...

Discover how quantitative analysts, or quants, use advanced mathematical models to predict market trends and identify lucrative investment opportunities.

The Tomorrow’s Quants series examines the skills and traits required of new quant recruits via a survey of major employers – and how universities are preparing them for the workplace, via a series of ...

What actuaries are to insurance and engineers to infrastructure, quants are to financial markets—architects of the sophisticated mathematical models that drive modern finance. From optimising trading ...

Today, serious trading runs on systems. Decisions are written in code. Orders are triggered automatically.

Quantitative analysts design and implement complex models that allow financial firms to price and trade securities. They are employed primarily by investment banks and hedge funds, but sometimes also ...