What are quant strategies? Most investment processes have two parts - quantitative, or quant, and q...
What are quant strategies? Most investment processes have two parts - quantitative, or quant, and qualitative. While qualitative strategies are based on things like a fund manager's assessment of the quality of a company's management, products or services and supply chain, quants cover things like company financials, earnings metrics such as price/earning and price/book ratios, cashflow and dividend yields. Can you use just one or the other? It would be foolish to rely purely on qualitative assessments. While Peter Lynch, erstwhile manager of Fidelity's giant US mutual fund Magellan, fam...
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