The Quant & Tech Salary Report 2022
This report analyses the basic salaries (not including bonus and sign-on) across Front Office, Back Office and Technology for the quant trading industry over the past three years (2020, 2021 and 2022). The report uses data from a universe of 72 quant hedge funds and proprietary trading firms, globally.
Who is Qube Research & Technologies ?
- A quant fund with a predominantly French leadership team that hires a lot from banks and is doing incredibly well. We could of course be talking about Squarepoint but in this article we will be analysing Qube Research and Technologies ("Qube" for rest of this article because we are not trying to hit 5,000 words so strap in because this is not the first abbreviation); the prop group spin out from Credit Suisse that doubled profits last year.
Top 100 Hedge Funds - leverage and $ AUM per Investment professional
This report analyses the $ AUM employed per investment professional for the top 100 hedge funds by AUM. We also analyse the amount of leverage applied to AUM by strategy and firm.
The Quant Investment Salary Report 2021
This report analyses the basic salaries, not including bonus and sign-on, across the front and back office, excluding technology (a separate report on tech salaries can be found here) for the quant trading industry in 2020 and 2021 from a universe of 90+ quant hedge funds and proprietary trading firms.
The Technology Salary Report 2021
This report analyses the basic salaries (not including bonus) across software engineering, infrastructure and dev ops for the quant trading industry in 2020 and 2021 from a universe of 90 quant hedge funds and proprietary trading firms.
The Quant Trading Talent Report 2021
This report analyses the flow of talent into and out of the quant trading industry during 2021. We used a sample universe of the top 93 hedge funds and prop trading firms that employ quantitative trading strategies (list at bottom).
The secretive HFT firm based in Prague
and the Jeopardy Question is....Who is RSJ RSJ has been a silent but omnipresent force within the futures markets, particularly STIR futures, for nearly twenty years. Founded by Karel Janecek in 1994 they placed their first trade on LIFFE (now ICE Futures) back in 2002 with their first fully algorithmic trade taking place two years later in 2004.
Top 100 University Alumni in Hedge Funds
We analysed, the academic backgrounds of employees at 90 hedge funds and prop trading firms (see appendix). The analysis is based on public data and covers 82% of the population. We should also caveat that we assigned only one University Alumni per head based on final qualifying institute. The top 10, by number of alumni, contains 8 American Universities (unsurprising considering that’s where 56% of our target population is based) however the UK also features, with Cambridge and Imperial making it onto the list.
China Focus
In this edition of China Focus we analyse the different options for overseas firms to set up in China and more specifically the China's Private Fund Market and it's participants.
Who is Hudson River Trading?
In this report we seek to shine a light on a secretive, highly regarded HFT firm.. Hudson River Trading.
Our top 5 short squeezes
Unless you've been living in a cave (and with all the CV19 restrictions in place it does sometimes feel like that) you couldn’t avoid the short squeeze on Gamestop last week. Short squeeze shot up the Google search rankings as retail investors jumped in. We thought it would be interesting to look back in time at some of the other short squeezes and the reasons behind them.
10 bank prop desks – where are they now?
This article looks at some of the prominent funds in the quantitative investment world and examines their prop desk history.
