Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An expert in the use of mathematics and related subjects, particularly in investment management and stock trading.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A walking-stick.
- noun A pushing-pole with a flat board or cap at one end to prevent it from sinking into the mud, used by bargemen; also, a jumping-pole, similarly fitted, used in marshes. The name is also given to the cap.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun finance A
quantitative analyst . - noun
Quantity . - noun
Quantifier . - noun A
punting pole with a broadflange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole. - adjective
Quantifiable . - adjective
Quantitative .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For years, he has been a senior executive overseeing so-called quant trading within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, after helping launch that unit ' s computer-driven investing business in 1989.
Quant Veteran to Retire From Goldman Jenny Strasburg 2010
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The so-called quant quake in 2007 hurt funds like Global Alpha as market volatility confounded computer-trading models.
Quant Veteran to Retire From Goldman Jenny Strasburg 2010
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And though quants and risk managers played a central role exacerbating last year's financial crisis, 86% of those surveyed indicated their supervisors '"level of understanding of the job of a quant is the same or worse than it was a year ago," and 70% said the same about their institutions as a whole.
Sen. Ted Kaufman: Breaking Wall Street's Boom, Bailout Cycle 2009
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Today even with the most sophisticated algorithms touted by our best and brightest quants (a quant is a believer in quantitative analysis), the average CTR now reports in at around 0.3%.
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Across the industry, so-called quant funds have been hit especially hard by the downturn in credit and private-equity markets.
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So-called quant funds often target stocks that look cheap, based on various measures, and bet against overpriced shares.
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The group is smaller than the 60-person PDT, which is led by Peter Muller, a so-called quant manager who uses mathematical models to trade securities.
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The group is smaller than the 60-person PDT, which is led by Peter Muller, a so-called quant manager who uses mathematical models to trade securities.
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The group is smaller than the 60-person PDT, which is led by Peter Muller, a so-called quant manager who uses mathematical models to trade securities.
unknown title 2011
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This should prove to be quite interesting, either he is the right man for you and you can consign your blog to history or he isn't and you lose a reader, either way at least you get a good dinner, by the way a quant is the group of people employed in financial services to analyse the data for instruments we trade or sell or to analysie the risks generated by such instruments - in effect quants were the people who said to the senior management at places like RBS and Lehmans "don't worry, I've run the numbers and can say with 99% certainty that you wont lose money on this" For some reason quant desks seem to have a large proprtion of Asians, mathmatics degrees are very common, so you might be on comfortable ethnic ground.
There Won't Be Blood juliette 2009
reesetee commented on the word quant
Also: 1. A pole for propelling a barge or punt, typically having a prong or flange at the bottom to prevent it from becoming embedded in mud.
That definition contains a delightful number of fun words.
2. In a windmill: a vertical spindle that transmits the drive from the gearing to the upper of a pair of millstones.
October 10, 2008