Quantitative Finance
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
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Capital Allocators 
the MAD Podcast
4 statements about Quantitative Finance, every show
McCord: Quantitative Finance and Autonomous AI Share the Same Talent Base
“The quants were going to be merging with AI. And this is obvious now, but like, you know, the quant and self-driving worlds are kind of like the same talent base.”
Craib: Machine learning quant investing relies entirely on theory-free models
“That's, in some ways, the opposite of machine learning, which is a path of saying, we have no idea what patterns are Real or we don't have any theory. We don't have any hypothesis, but we do have a large data set. What can we learn in that data set that will g…”
Craib: A 0.5% accuracy gain in quantitative finance dramatically transforms Sharpe ratio
“Especially in the finance domain where, let's say you're currently 52% right. If you can go to 52 and a half percent right, It's like a whole different level of performance for the end investor, a whole different level of shock ratio or returns and risk.”
Seides: Baseball analytics preceded investing in adopting a 'quantamental' balance
“Interviewing Ben Ryder, who wrote the book Astro Ball, twice now, but the first time before the Astros blew up, it was like startling to me that what he was describing was the movement into quantitative finance, and that baseball was ahead of investing, and th…”