Milind Sharma

Chief Investment Officer at QuantZ

Speaker

Milind Sharma’s ~30 years of market experience span running proprietary trading desks at Deutsche Bank (Saba entity) & RBC (GAT entity) as well as hedge funds (QuantZ) & mutual funds (MLIM). His funds have won many awards over the years including those from Morningstar, Lipper, WSJ etc. He was a founding member of Quant Strategies at Merrill Lynch on the buyside (now BlackRock) and Manager of the Risk Analytics and Research Group at Ernst & Young. His QuantZ/ QMIT launch has been a pioneer in applying ML to factor investing. QuantZ is the world’s 1st fully synthetic hedge fund accessible via bank QIS swaps.

His publications have appeared in the Journal of Investment Management, Risk, Wiley, Elsevier, World Scientific etc with a new Wiley Finance book forthcoming. His educational background includes Oxford, Vassar, Carnegie Mellon & Wharton. He has guest-lectured and/ or directed Capstone courses at Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, UCLA, UCSD etc.

He is founder & President of New York’s premier quant society <QWAFAxNEW>.