BLOG INSIGHTS AND ANALYSIS

All of the Quantbot partners and New York directors had a special get-together at Ai Fiori this past Thursday, June 5th. With Thuong in from London and Johnson in from Hong Kong, it was a rare opportunity for the senior management team of Quantbot to enjoy a meal together and each other’s company. After a day of reviewing the firm’s strategic plans for the coming years, the group had a wonderful time together, and exchanged lots of stories and laughs! 

The start of the summer marks the beginning of Quantbot’s intern season, which kicked off on Tuesday, June 3rd with a “meet the team” get-together in the New York office. 

All of the partners were in attendance, including our global partners from the London and Hong Kong offices! Paul started the evening with an inspiring speech that set a wonderful tone for the night, as everyone chatted and got to know each other better over a delicious spread of food. 

We welcomed 10 new interns in New York this year, and look forward to seeing their development and growth at Quantbot in the coming months!

On May 5th, the Quantbot team in New York had the privilege of hearing from Kharen Musaelian and Dario Villani of Qognitive, as they presented their lecture, “Quantum Cognition Machine Learning: a path to human-like abstraction and inference.”

The lecture outlined new machine learning developments being made by Qognitive employees that could potentially benefit many spheres of our day-to-day lives, from finance to health care. Qognitive informed us of their unique approach that allows them to scale large data sets, providing additional insights that statistical learning techniques may miss. 

We thoroughly enjoyed engaging with the representatives from Qognitive and learning about their innovative developments, and we look forward to hearing more in the future!

The Quantbot Annual Company dinner took place on Wednesday, May 7th at L’Avenue at Saks, with the New York office in attendance to enjoy great food and conversation with colleagues.

Attendees were greeted into the gorgeous venue with drinks before having a lovely seated dinner.

This year, we decided to introduce the new “Quantbot Team Choice Awards,” giving staff the opportunity to vote within three categories for their hard-working colleagues to honor a few standout individuals.

Iris was awarded most year over year growth, Lily was celebrated for best demonstration of the Quantbot culture day in and day out, and Amy took home the MVP of 2024 award. Congrats to all of the amazing winners!

Everyone had an incredible time at the event, and we are already looking forward to getting together next year for the Quantbot dinner!

On May 1st, Paul took part in the Investment Spotlight event held by Schonfeld in New York, speaking alongside Tom DeBow, the Chief Technology Officer of Schonfeld, for one of the three panels. The fireside chat was moderated by Ryan Tolkin, CEO & CIO of Schonfeld, as they discussed key strategic topics such as Tom’s approach to building and scaling technology to support quant trading strategies, as well as scaling Schonfeld’s systematic business. Additionally, Paul illustrated how Quantbot is structured, and how this structure has allowed us to remain successful over the long term in a highly competitive space. The constantly evolving partnerships between Schonfeld and Quantbot, as well as the Code Willing platform and partnership, were highlighted as vital parts of the company’s success. 

This discussion was followed by two other panels comprised of internal portfolio managers, with Paul being the only external PM to participate in the Spotlight event!