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Miniskirt creator Mary Quant believed ‘femininity lies in the attitude’
British fashion designer Mary Quant is credited with revolutionising British fashion in the 1950s a…
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A quant fund is looking to hire high-ranking Wall Street Bets members as traders - and says a 'refined taste for memes' will help candidates
Cindicator Capital wants to hire meme-savvy veterans of the Wall Street Bets subreddit for its sent…
Isabelle Lee
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Mary Quant the late designer who made the miniskirt all the rage — named the fashion item after her favorite car
British designer Mary Quant died on Thursday aged 93. She's widely credited with bringing the minis…
Maria Noyen
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A longtime recruiter for Igor Tulchinsky is leaving WorldQuant to start his own business, sources tell us
WorldQuant has a global recruiting team, and has changed the way many hedge funds think about findi…
Bradley Saacks
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Warren Buffett has more in common with quant traders than it seems, elite investor Cliff Asness says
Warren Buffett sniffs out bargains by assessing companies' profits, risks, valuations, and other fa…
Theron Mohamed
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WorldQuant's Igor Tulchinsky just guaranteed his team 75% of last year's performance bonus to soothe nerves as quant funds get slammed
Quant funds have had a rough year. Traditional stock-pickers like Pershing Square and Greenlight Ca…
Bradley Saacks
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Worse than the 2007 'Quant Quake': Huge quant names like Schonfeld and Bridgewater are getting slammed as market chaos blows up computer-driven trades
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is down more than 10% on the month as of this week in its Partners Fun…
Bradley Saacks
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Maverick Capital's human stock-pickers are shining, but quant strategies at Lee Ainslie's $8.8 billion fund are in the red and lagging their peers
The document states that the two quant funds at Maverick, which manage a combined $930 million, los…
Bradley Saacks
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Billionaire Steven Schonfeld poaches a top quant from Glenn Dubin's Engineers Gate to run a new fund
Shi joined Engineers Gate, which was founded by Dubin in 2014, as one of the firm's first employees…
Bradley Saacks
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A star quant trader is launching his own firm with the backing of a $4 billion hedge fund
"Many of our strategies are statistical arbitrage strategies," Tolkin said. "That basically means r…
Rachael Levy
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'Quant' Hedge Funds: Computer Says No
Some wonder whether the growth of quant-fund investing has irreparably harmed returns. Decent trend…
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One of Steve Cohen's top quant portfolio managers is starting his own hedge fund and he's bringing along his team
Graves joined Point72 in 2010 after working as a quant for years at firms including the former- Cre…
Bradley Saacks
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The reason the stock market has stayed relatively stable amid economic chaos: computer-driven trading
Quant funds, which use computer models to trade, are helping calm the markets at a time of uncertai…
Alexandra York
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Izzy Englander just added a quant team that was managing hundreds of millions for billionaire Michael Platt
Kahn, the former head of the prop desk at Societe Generale, was given $300 million by BlueCrest Cap…
Bradley Saacks
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$7 billion hedge fund WorldQuant hosted a competition for women quants. Now it's hiring 50 of the contestants as research consultants.
WorldQuant has a history of trying to diversify the hedge fund world. In 2017, the fund launched a …
Alex Nicoll
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Sports betting is the next frontier for Wall Street's smartest quants to conquer
Trading giant Susquehanna and other quants are diving into sports betting — making it harder for th…
Bradley Saacks
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Coatue's newest fund lost money in the fourth quarter, showing how even the best-pedigreed quants are struggling
"We envision a future where our data scientists and fundamental analysts sit side by side to formul…
Bradley Saacks
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Insider finance: Quant trading talent wars
The top finance stories for April 20, including the latest news on the war for talent among quant a…
Dan DeFrancesco,Jordan Parker…
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A top portfolio manager has resigned from Steve Cohen's quant hedge fund unit Cubist after nearly 9 years
According to his LinkedIn profile, Graves joined Point72 in 2010 after working as a quant for years…