Back in 2013, Bloomberg’s world-class quantitative researchers were looking for an alternative to MATLAB, a programming and numeric computing platform for analyzing data, developing algorithms, and ...

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What actuaries are to insurance and engineers to infrastructure, quants are to financial markets—architects of the sophisticated mathematical models that drive modern finance. From optimising trading ...

Quantitative analysts design and implement complex models that allow financial firms to price and trade securities. They are employed primarily by investment banks and hedge funds, but sometimes also ...