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QuantMinds International
17 - 20 November 2025
InterContinental O2London

Barney Rowe
Senior Quantitative Analyst at Fidelity International
Speaker

Profile

Barney joined Fidelity International in 2014 and works as a Senior Quantitative Analyst in the Systematic Investing team. At Fidelity he has designed tools and strategies that employ behavioural psychology and natural language processing to improve investment performance, while a recent focus has been research towards more robust, stable, and scalable methods for systematic portfolio construction. Barney has a PhD in astrophysics, and prior to joining Fidelity worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Sorbonne Université, and University College London.

Agenda Sessions

  • Minimum distance optimisation: a general-purpose alternative to mean-variance for institutional equity strategies

    14:00