Benjamin Moritz

Executive Partner HQ Asset Management

Benjamin Moritz is an Executive Partner and Co-Founder of HQ Asset Management (HQAM). Founded in 2018, HQAM is a quantitative and scientific-driven asset management firm, based in Germany, combining Finance with Artificial Intelligence and Technology to build better products.

Benjamin joined the Quantitative Asset Management industry in 2007. He holds a PhD in Statistics from Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU) where he focused on the application of machine learning to stock selection and textual analysis to asset allocation. In 2015 Benjamin and his co-author won the Best Paper Award at the Annual Meeting of the German Finance Association for their paper on introducing machine learning techniques to stock selection.