“Everyone is becoming a quant,” Savita Subramanian, the Head of US Equity and Quantitative Strategy at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, wrote in a 247 page “Quantitative Primer 2017.” As quants begin to take on an increasingly dominant position in the investing landscape, what are the ramifications? [dalio] BofA: With rise of quants, risk of global financial meltdown is increasing Available job postings for data scientists and quantitative analysts significantly outnumber those for fundamental analysts by a factor of eight, Subramanian wrote in the report. But is the quant space getting “crowded?” BofA’s quantitatively orientated clients use three times more…
BofA: With Rise of Quants Comes Meltdown Risk
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.