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Re: What do "Head Quants" actually do?

April 30th, 2023, 9:24 pm

what kind of organizations is being discussed in this thread please? banks?
I was thinking in the context of major banks, but all the replies have been interesting.
I'm a quant with little managerial experience, myself.

With regard to smaller organisations (for example sports bookmakers), the head
quant typically does a lot of quantitative modelling/ development.  But that doesn't seem to be the case
at the banks where I've worked, and the in-the-know replies on this thread seem to bear this out, and to
be quite a close match to what I would have guessed.

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