UpNext: Careers in Data Analytics for Liberal Arts - Quant Trading - A Secretive Industry

Peter Lubans ‘06 (Mathematics, Computer Science), leads the Research and Development (R&D) effort at Qsemble Capital Management and will talk about quantitative trading, a notoriously secretive industry. Populated by PhDs from fields as diverse as speech recognition and astro-physics, it’s hard to imagine what quant hedge funds actually do on a daily basis. News stories are vague or full of speculation. Peter will pull back the curtain on how a quant fund operates, touching on alpha research, predictive modeling, and the challenges of driving innovation in a ruthlessly competitive industry.