Quantitative trading relies on a data-driven approach using mathematical models to analyze market behavior. Instead of relying on instinct or opinion, it uses measurable signals based on statistics ...

Geoffrey Lauprete is the head of Cubist Systematic Strategies. Jeff Yass founded proprietary trading firm Susquehanna International Group.Cubist; Susquehanna Competition for top quant talent has never ...

Wall Street has been transformed by the quant revolution, in which hedge funds and other sophisticated investors use algorithms to spot market signals and trade automatically. For years, ordinary ...

Competition for top quant talent has never been stiffer. With top hedge funds and high-frequency trading firms in expansion mode — and increasingly encroaching on the same turf — the mathematicians, ...