Forb_Research
Forb_ResearchCertificated Individuals
Tiger Certification: A group of ex-Wall Street analysts sharing back-tested strategies & insights on global assets
7Follow
526Followers
0Topic
0Badge

When quantitative strategies swoon, could the faith in mathematics falter? — Taking the current U.S. stock market as example

As a group of mathematicians and physicists entered Wall Street since the 1980s, quantitative investment strategies have gradually become the fad. The successful icons of this move were Jim Simons' Renaissance Technologies and D.E. Shaw's eponymous quant fund. This shift led to the increasing desertion and skepticism toward qualitative strategies, a trend that closely aligns with what I observed during my tenure on Wall Street, intermingling with various institutions. Of all quant strategies, a widely favored and easy-to-implement framework is the multi-factor strategy. This approach simply extracts/mining various factors from a factor zoo and uses back testing to determine their efficacy and weights. However, in an era where factors are becoming crowded, multi-factor strategies have undou
When quantitative strategies swoon, could the faith in mathematics falter? — Taking the current U.S. stock market as example

Go to Tiger App to see more news