quant
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Its $500 million stake in Anthropic was later sold for $1.3 billion to a group that included Jane Street, the quant trading firm that once employed Bankman-Fried and would later invest in Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Around the beginning of 2025, it poached Tim Perevozchikov, a former quant trader at the Wall Street firm Two Sigma, to head up Etched’s finance efforts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
A quant-trading firm that has piled up profits in recent years, Jane Street lost money in other ways last month, too, as quant traders suffer through a rough period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The competition poses a challenge for quant firms, which have sought to sweep up the next generation of math whizzes to retain the trading edge that has made them a force in finance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 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
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