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Quant

A person with numerical and computer skills who carries out quantitative analyses of companies.

Quant

Informal for a quantitative analyst. It is more generally applied to any securities analyst who uses quantitative analysis to determine buy or sell signals. Investment advisory firms employ quants to help them make investment decisions on behalf of clients. A quant is also called a rocket scientist. See also: Technical analysis.

quant

A person who has strong skills in mathematics, engineering, or computer science, and who applies those skills to the securities business. For example, a pension fund may employ a quant to put together an optimal portfolio of bonds to meet the fund's future liabilities. Also called rocket scientist.
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Leigh Drogen, the founder of crowdsourced financial analysis platform Estimize, started organizing quant training for discretionary traders when he heard about portfolio managers going to night classes to learn data science.
To rectify this, Estimize began its Learn to Quant (L2Q) training sessions in association with Jefferies, the investment bank.
Estimize Teaches Discretionary World About Quant Trading Data Science
To managers, quants value cleverness more than realism and practicality, are unwilling or unable to clearly explain the reasoning underlying their elaborate models and cannot appreciate the many immeasurable factors relevant to most decisions.
Roles and individuals that combine the strengths of quants and managers will be in high demand in the world that is emerging.
Adding up the skills: enormous opportunity awaits firms that master the ability to combine quantitative and managerial skills. (Property/Casualty: Loss/Risk Management Insight)

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