quant

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Garrett DeSimone, head quant at OptionMetrics, said it has led the dispersion trade to “become a bit overcrowded,” which adds to the market’s “frothiness.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

“Crowding in meme stocks has jumped sharply,” analysts at the world’s biggest bank, led by Arun Jain, U.S. equity quant strategist, wrote in a note on Wednesday.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026

Overdeck, a mathematician, and Siegel, a computer scientist, met while working at quant hedge-fund pioneer D.E.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

“The thinking was to engage finance clubs and quant traders, but we decided to shelve this program to focus on broader brand efforts,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

“At the ratings agencies the corporate credit people are the least bad,” says a quant who engineered mortgage bonds for Morgan Stanley.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis