To Quant or Not to Quant: That is the Question .:Macquarie Research

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To Quant or Not to Quant:
That is the Question
Highlights from North American Quant
Conference
Event
 We held our North American Quant Conference, To Quant or Not to Quant: That
is the Question, in Boston on May 17th. We had consultants from Rogerscasey
and Russell Investments, buy-side managers from State Street Global Advisors,
PanAgora Asset Management and AXA Rosenberg, as well as a sell-side
perspective from Macquarie‟s George Platt, who shared their opinions on the
challenges that quants currently face and the future of quant strategies.
 The following pages contain the key highlights from each of our speakers and
our panel discussion. Each speaker and their presentation titles are listed below:
George Platt - Co-Head of Global Quantitative Research, Macquarie
Capital: The case for the Affirmative – Perspectives from the Sell-side
Arman Gevorgyan - Director, Investment Research, Rogerscasey: A
Long Road Ahead for Quantitative Strategies
Mark Thurston - Head of Global Equity Research, Russell Investments:
Will quants provide diversification and alpha opportunities?
Mark Hooker - Head of Advanced Research Center, State Street Global
Advisors: The case for the Affirmative – Perspectives from the Buy-side
Additionally we had a panel discussion that included the above speakers as
well as Eric Sorensen - President, PanAgora Asset Management and
Jeremy Baskin - Global CEO, AXA Rosenberg.
 For additional information about our conference and presentations please
contact a member of the Macquarie Quant team.