Milind Sharma

CEO QuantZ/ QMIT

(formerly QWAFAFEW).Milind Sharma’s 24 years of market experience span running prop desks at RBC & Deutsche Bank (Saba unit) as well as hedge funds (QuantZ) & mutual funds (MLIM) not to mention his fintech venture QMIT. His funds have won many awards over the years including those from Morningstar, Lipper, WSJ, Battle of the Quants & BattleFin. He was also a co-founder of Quant Strategies at MLIM (now BlackRock) & Manager of the Risk Analytics and Research Group at Ernst & Young where he was co-architect of Raven TM. His publications have appeared in Risk, JoIM, Elsevier, World Scientific, Wiley etc. In addition to dual MS degrees (Computational Finance & Applied Math) he was also in the Logic/ AI PhD program at Carnegie Mellon. Other education includes Oxford, Vassar & Wharton. He is also founder & President of QWAFAx NEW.

Tuesday 11th March agenda

1:30 PM The Alternative Data Offering

What’s the alt-data landscape look like?
How does one merge alternative and traditional data sources?
What does a cross asset-data offering look like?
How re-usable is a data set in a multi-asset strategy?
Which markets suffer from the ‘lack of data’ myth?

2:30 PM The Case for Fixed Income: From automating analytics to enhancing execution

How does the market structure and dynamics differ from traditional assets?
How can AI and ML be levered effectively across the fixed income landscape?
Do LLMs herald more risk than reward in this space?

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