Artur Sepp

Head Quant LGT Bank

Artur Sepp is the head quant at LGT bank in Zurich focusing on quantitative asset allocation and systematic investment strategies. Artur has over 15 years of experience in financial markets including heading quant research and portfolio management at a systematic hedge fund and a family office as well as leading development of front-office quant strategies and derivatives at private (Julius Baer) and investment banks (Merrill Lynch/BofA). Artur has a PhD in Mathematical Statistics from University of Tartu, an MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern University, and a BA cum laude in Mathematical Economics from Tallinn University of Technology. His expertise covers quantitative investing and asset allocation, quantitative modelling of derivative securities, machine learning and data science, and blockchain applications within decentralised finance. He is the author and co-author of several research articles on quantitative finance published in key journals. Artur won Risk Magazine’s Quant of the Year Award (2024). He is an active practitioner of martial arts in his free time.