quant
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So-called quant firms, which use sophisticated mathematical models to come up with trades, have for years wooed top young talent with lucrative compensation that big banks struggle to match.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
It was seen as a coup when Situational attracted institutional investors including quant trading firm Jane Street, which ranks among Wall Street’s most profitable firms and rarely allocates capital to outside managers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Now studying math and computer science at MIT, Zhang said she was most interested in working in quant after graduating—having watched those same firms compete to hire her and her classmates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Like many quant firms, Jane Street has long relied on machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence, to build the trading models that dictate its moves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
“At the ratings agencies the corporate credit people are the least bad,” says a quant who engineered mortgage bonds for Morgan Stanley.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
