Wall Street Quants Are Turning Their Skills to the Virus Fight
- Statistical methods in finance unleashed in the ‘data crisis’
- Rotella Capital, Coolabah, ex-AQR AI chief ramp up research
Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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Everyone on Wall Street is an armchair epidemiologist these days, but a motley crew of quants is taking it to a whole new level.
Hedge fund managers, market academics and risk experts are channeling their data-mining smarts to the world of clinical sciences to model the trajectory of this once-in-a-century pandemic.