"First, I would characterize the money management business as a game based on the duality of money and information..."
Days defined by an all-encompassing search for alpha
Driven by the desire to find an edge that produces profits, WorldQuant employees work hard to invent ideas before the competition does. Staff may work alone or in teams that are at the same time collaborative and competitive. All are free to pursue whatever intellectual problems appeal to them in a meritocratic, creative, academic atmosphere, as long as they keep the company's realworld goals in sight. Performance is judged only by the relentlessly objective market, focusing WorldQuant daily on the key question: how much profit has been created?
For an inside view of what work is like for a WorldQuant researcher, trader and technologist, read on.
Researcher
Trader
"As a trader, my main focus is developing better strategies. A better strategy needs good ideas, and good..."
Technologist
"WorldQuant's technology has a variety of important roles: to provide researchers and portfolio managers with..."