Definition of quant
: an expert at analyzing and managing quantitative data
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About 10 years ago Facebook created a team of engineers, product managers and quants whose sole job was to identify all the things that convinced users to spend time on Facebook and tell their friends about it.
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The quants have beaten the spread in 10 of the last 14 Super Bowls.
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Not since the early adapters and the quants learned that much of the orthodoxy of hitting was stone-cold wrong.
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For some quants, comfortable in the world of numbers but not metaphors, this might prove intimidating.
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JPMorgan quants say risks are growing for a bond short-squeeze.
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The quants and their algorithms may have taken over Wall Street.
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To be sure, risk parity is traditionally employed by quants who use more complicated inputs and a longer-term horizon that wouldn’t be subject to any sudden shift in correlation.
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Managers are the game’s aristocrats, powerless next to the Ivy League quants who have become the faces of their franchises but comparatively divine.
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Origin and Etymology of quant
short for quantitative (analyst)
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