Quant Investing Series

Insights into World Leading Systematic Trading Firms

In this three part series, we welcome Robin Wigglesworth of the FT for a series of interviews with algorithmic trading pioneers. Robin is the Editor of Alphaville, the FT's acclaimed markets & finance blog.

He's also the author of 'Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance For Ever', which documents the rise of passive investing (a highly recommended & comprehensive read!).

In the miniseries, Robin is joined by Leda Braga of Systematica, Russell Korgaonkar of Man AHL CIO and Savina Rizova of Dimensional Fund Advisors. We've also included Robin's interview with Simon here, where he explains how the likes of Jack Bogle & Larry Fink utilised low fee index investing & ETF products to disrupt the sector. Please scroll down to start listening!

Quant Investing

Women in Finance

The Evolution of Multi-Factor Quant Strategies – With Savina Rizova, Global Head of Research at Dimensional Fund Advisors

This week, we’re pleased to be bringing you Episode 3 our Quant Investing Miniseries! Hosted by the Robin Wigglesworth, Editor of FT Alphaville (part of the Financial Times), this series explores how quantitative analysis is potentially reshaping the asset management industry.

Quant Investing

Russell Korgaonkar

Uncovering the Quant Process - With Russell Korgaonkar, CIO of Man AHL

We’re excited to be bringing you Episode 2 our Quant Investing Miniseries! Hosted by the Robin Wigglesworth, Global Finance Correspondent at the Financial Times, this series explores how quantitative analysis is potentially reshaping the asset management industry.

Quant Investing

Women in Finance

Why Quant is the Future – With Leda Braga, CEO & Founder of Systematica

Leda Braga has earned the nickname “the queen of quants”. After a PhD in engineering from Imperial College London, she spent seven years at JPMorgan as a quant the bank’s derivatives research team. After a stint at a start-up spun out of JPMorgan, the Brazil-born Leda then helped establish one of the industry’s leading systematic trend-following funds at Michael Platt’s BlueCrest.

Authors & Journalists

Robin Wigglesworth

Trillions: Who should invest passively and why? With Robin Wigglesworth, The Financial Times' Global Finance Correspondent.

'Over the past decade, about 80 cents of every dollar that has gone into the US investment industry has ended up at Vanguard, State Street, and BlackRock. As a result, the combined stake in S&P 500 companies held by the Big Three has quadrupled, from about 5 percent in 1998 to north of 20 percent today.'