Didn’t I read about a weird new product that . . .?” In short, he’s a “quant jock,” as we used to call the numbers fanatics at the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. I’m a “cases ...

Lee Lin and Lawrence Zhou were quant jocks living in New York City. That's where they ran into a huge problem -- closing a deal on decent place to live. As Lin explained in a December 18 interview ...

In May 2016 Alpha Magazine highlighted that six of the eight highest earning U.S. hedge fund managers are "quant jocks," relying heavily on computer-driven investment strategies to produce the ...

A home-brewed graphing calculator called Open SciCal promises to put a powerful machine built entirely from open-source hardware into the pockets of quant jocks and statisticians. "This is for the ...

“Most are idiot savants brought to industrial proportion,” Nassim Nicholas Taleb, former quant-jock and bestselling contrarian author, said by phone from Scotland, where he is promoting his ...

Wall Street's quant jocks have always held a quiet mystique, but until recently, only the nerdiest of observers knew who and what they were. But the troubles facing big banks with notable names has ...

I’m tired of Nassim Nicholas Taleb. He isn’t as brilliant as he thinks he is. He may be a quant jock, but he talks about an idealized laissez-faire capitalism as if he’s never read a history ...

But where should it invest? Some young quant jocks may know. While county officials are working to ramp up the Cook County Land Bank to address the hundreds of thousands of vacant properties ...

But it’s very analytics heavy – you need to be a ‘quant jock’ to excel at it, and it’s dominated by sharks trying to make money. The casual sports fan is really just looking for a fun ...

The company came of age with the expansion of high-frequency trading over the last decade and the proliferation of quant-jock-driven electronic firms that dominate the buying and selling of U.S ...

Over the last 6 years, he has worked with several Fortune 500 companies in the Wireless, Online Advertising, Software, and Hardware space and is a true technology enthusiast and quant jock.