More than ever, Senior PMs are going independent.   Whether it’s the freedom of working for yourself, the financial upside, or the ability to actualize your research across multiple platforms and products, the opportunities to go independent are becoming more plentiful.   More than ever, hedge funds, prop trading companies, and asset managers are creating platforms, capabilities Read more

Find the Future, eh? Nice tagline. What’s so great about Fionics anyways? Here are the Top 6 reasons Quants and PMs work with Fionics: If you’re considering your options in Quant Finance and want to learn more, feel free to get in touch.   Have questions? Get in touch with our staff for more info! Read more

Last month we posted an article about how some large-scale prop firms won’t hire experienced senior Quants to run their own teams and strategies unless they’re a certain scale (I.e. $100M P&L) and how that creates an opportunity for mid-sized prop trading companies with great infrastructure to swoop up talented Quants.  (See that post here: Read more

So the other day we were talking with an HFT Quant who co-managed a $1M/day HFT Equities book, and a well-known Prop Trading firm wasn’t interested in letting him set up a new team, because his initial strategy/book wouldn’t hit $100M P&L year in a 1-2 year time horizon and would take away from the Read more

For our friends in Quant Trading who are interested in running their own strategies or building a team, think of your track record as a business proposal. You’re no longer interviewing for a job; you are presenting a business case to an investor. Most companies are going to want to know: Everything else is personality Read more

What’s the number 1 reason top performing Quants consider a move from a successful team environment?   Basically, most top performers want to earn an easily measurable piece of what they bring to the table.   More and more we’re seeing good companies willing to pay Quants 20%-50% of P&L, and they have good technology infrastructure to Read more