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quant
1[kwahnt]
noun
Business Slang., an expert in quantitative analysis.
Quant
2[kwahnt]
noun
Dame Mary Barbara Mary Quant, 1930–2023, English fashion designer and entrepreneur: often credited as the principal designer of the miniskirt in the 1960s.
quant
1/ kwɒnt /
noun
a long pole for propelling a boat, esp a punt, by pushing on the bottom of a river or lake
verb
to propel (a boat) with a quant
Quant
2/ kwɒnt /
noun
Mary. born 1934, British fashion designer, whose Chelsea Look of miniskirts and geometrically patterned fabrics dominated London fashion in the 1960s
quant
3/ kwɒnt /
noun
informal, a highly paid computer specialist with a degree in a quantitative science, employed by a financial house to predict the future price movements of securities, commodities, currencies, etc
Word History and Origins
Origin of quant1
Word History and Origins
Origin of quant1
Origin of quant2
Example Sentences
Jill Carey Hall, an equity and quant strategist with BofA Securities, noted in a report Wednesday that while investors sold single stocks, particularly in tech, over the past week, they actually were net buyers of big tech ETFs.
Gregory Zuckerman’s 2019 bestseller, “The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution,” revealed how: Simons’s Medallion Fund averaged 66% annual returns for three decades using mathematical algorithms that would make ChatGPT weep.
These quant funds now dominate trading volume.
The modern quant funds post good numbers — 15%, 20% a year, sometimes better.
Renaissance continues under Peter Brown’s leadership — still closed to outsiders, still profitable, but acknowledging what everyone in quant knows: The market got smarter.
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