quant

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Garrett DeSimone, head quant at OptionMetrics, said it has led the dispersion trade to “become a bit overcrowded,” which adds to the market’s “frothiness.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

Hyperliquid, founded three years ago by former quant trader Jeff Yan, is always open for business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Recently, the Lazard team has been applying a “life cycle score” in its valuation analysis for companies, whereby its quant models value younger companies with more room to grow differently than older, more mature companies.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

The same applies to portfolio construction and risk work: News shocks, once exclusive to bespoke quant infrastructure, can be triggered and iterated through natural-language interfaces.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 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