We manage only a few accounts on behalf of only one investor with its own specific investment guidelines unlike other fund managers which may manage more numerous funds and/or cater to multiple fund investors. While there are thousands of advisory firms in the US, we are unique for our:
- Michael Botlo, Co-Founder
Let me give you a brief, simple breakdown:
- Ashar Mahboob, Co-Founder
For most strategies to be successful, you would need robust out-of-sample alpha as
well as the ability to implement and execute your alpha with fast-time-to-market and desired
implementation costs. The Quantbot infrastructure is specifically set up for the full circle of
alpha development. Most of our new strategists are very surprised how quickly they can try out
their ideas in our environment and then get their complex strategy ready to try out against live
data in just a matter of weeks. We believe that a platform like ours, which provides consistent
interface across regions, alpha durations and cost expectations, is paramount to get your idea
to market.
- Michael Lisak, Co-Founder
I think it’s kind of funny that ‘Data Science’ has recently become this cool and
sexy moniker when we’ve been doing this since the 90’s. In order to do our research well, we
have been constantly designing, developing and improving our infrastructure year after year to
ensure each quant has all the tools he needs to do his job. When I run ‘df -h’ on our private
cluster and get back numbers in P’s, it reminds me of just how significant the level of
infrastructure we have at our disposal. However, the demand for data and processing is almost
infinite so we also leverage the public cloud and constantly evaluate new hardware and software,
such as FPGAs, Intel PHIs, GPUs, etc., to see if they can be useful in our search for profitable
alpha. Our commitment to the pursuit of increasingly better technology is absolute as ultimately
we are a technology company.
- Paul White, Co-Founder