This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Monday, 04/24/2017. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!
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Why quants don’t pick stocks [Flirting with Models]Quant is a broad word with many job descriptions in finance. In asset management, a quant is someone who applies mathematical (usually statistical) techniques to analyzing the securities market, usually with an eye towards identifying investment opportunities. Quants rely on factors: systematic investment approaches that capture and explain the return difference between different cohorts of