WorldQuant

WorldQuant
Company typePrivate
IndustryInvestment management
GenreHedge fund
Founded2007; 17 years ago (2007) in New York City, US
FounderIgor Tulchinsky
Headquarters
Old Greenwich, Connecticut, US
Number of locations
24 offices[1] (2020)
Key people
  • Igor Tulchinsky
    (Chairman, CEO and Co-CIO)
  • Richard Hu
    (Vice chairman and CRO)
  • Paul Griffin
    (Co-CIO and CSO)
  • Jeffrey Blomberg
    (CAO and General Counsel)
  • Jonathan Marom
    (CFO)
  • David Rukshin
    (CTO)[2]
ServicesQuantitative trading and investing
AUMUS$9 billion[3]
OwnerIgor Tulchinsky
Number of employees
1,000[4] (2023)
WebsiteWorldQuant.com WorldQuant.co

WorldQuant, LLC is an international hedge fund and quantitative investment management firm[5][6][7] headquartered in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.[8] Founded in 2007, the firm is currently managing approximately $9 billion in assets under management[3] for Millennium Management[8] via quantitative trading and other methods of quantitative investing.[9] WorldQuant operated the WorldQuant Challenge, where participants compete in the field of quantitative finance,[10] and WorldQuant Accelerator, an independent portfolio manager platform.[11] In 2015 the WorldQuant Foundation launched WorldQuant University.[12]

  1. ^ "Contact". WorldQuant. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
  2. ^ "Who We Are / Leadership". WorldQuant. 2020.
  3. ^ a b "WorldQuant enjoying banner year despite $200m vaccine shake-up hit", Financial Times, November 19, 2020
  4. ^ About - How We Work, WorldQuant, 2023
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  6. ^ Porzecanski, Katia; Kumar, Nishant (March 6, 2017). "How a $26 Billion Hedge Fund Lures the Beautiful Minds". Bloomberg. United States. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
  7. ^ Burger, Dani (March 16, 2017). "WorldQuant's Part-Time Virtual Army Do Battle for Jobs". Bloomberg. United States. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
  8. ^ a b Porzecanski, Katia (February 14, 2017). "WorldQuant Lures Talent With Intellectual Property". Bloomberg. United States. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
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  10. ^ Wigglesworth, Robin (March 8, 2017). "Hedge funds adopt novel methods to hunt down new tech talent". Financial Times. United Kingdom. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
  11. ^ Bennett, Macaela J (February 15, 2017). "Greenwich investment firm launches portfolio manager platform". Greenwich Time. Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference wsj-liberates was invoked but never defined (see the help page).