Dr. Cyril Bachelard Appointed Lecturer for the Master of Science UZH ETH in Quantitative Finance

With the start of the new academic semester, Dr. Cyril Bachelard, founding partner and Head of Quant Engineering, has taken on a new role as lecturer for the highly regarded Master of Science UZH ETH in Quantitative Finance – a specialised  programme offered jointly by ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich.

We wish Cyril continued success and are confident that his extensive expertise and years of experience in Quantitative Portfolio Management will provide valuable insights to the classroom.

Program Director, Prof. Dr. Walter Farkas, says: “We are very pleased to have Dr. Cyril Bachelard, a proven specialist, as a lecturer for our top students.”

The team is growing – welcome Dr. Kyle Steinhauer

Due to the high level of interest in our services, we are delighted to welcome Dr. Kyle Steinhauer, a proven specialist in the field of quantitative finance and technology-driven solutions, to our Quant Engineering team. Kyle most recently led an AI and research department at a fintech company in Japan. Prior to that, he was a team leader of a development team at a global investment bank.

With his expertise in developing AI applications and designing customized index solutions, Kyle will be instrumental in further expanding our offering and providing our clients with innovative and efficient solutions.

The team is growing – welcome Dr. Soros Chitsiripanich

We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Soros Chitsiripanich, a recognized specialist in the field of Fractional Momentum, to our Quant Engineering team. He will actively contribute to our portfolio construction by applying insights from his dissertation titled New Momentum, Reversal, and Multivariate Mixtures for Portfolio Selection and will also help drive the further development of our platform with his programming skills.

Soros has already supported us over the past few months, fully convincing us of his abilities. We are all the more delighted that he is now a permanent member of the QuantArea team.

New Member of the Board of Directors: Welcome Stefan Zumtaugwald

We are delighted to welcome Stefan Zumtaugwald as a new member of our Board of Directors. As an experienced expert in the field of asset management, Stefan has extensive management experience at executive level with international banks and asset managers, particularly in the areas of business development and sales. With his expertise, he will play a key role in the strategic positioning, sales growth, and continued successful development of QuantArea.

Bears, Bulls and Monkeys – PhD thesis of Dr. Cyril Bachelard

Congratulations to Dr. Cyril Bachelard on earning his doctorate! His dissertation, titled Bears, Bulls and Monkeys, introduces innovative approaches to analyze financial market dynamics by integrating concepts from geometry and statistics.

We congratulate Cyril on this important career milestone and look forward to working with him to further grow and advance QuantArea.

Cantonal Economic Development Agency supports QuantArea

Our business model “Quant as a Service” has also convinced the Economic Development Agency of the Canton of Bern. They will financially support QuantArea over the next two years as part of their startup funding program. We are very pleased that the Canton is also convinced by our innovative business model, promising business plan, and the expertise of our team.

We would like to thank the Economic Development Agency of the Canton of Bern and Ms. Joëlle Ziegler for their support and the always very pleasant interactions.

QuantArea Selects Bloomberg’s BQuant Enterprise to Power Quant Research Service

We are pleased to announce the next stage in the development of our “Quant as a Service” offering: after months of intensive development work, we are now pleased to officially announce our collaboration with Bloomberg.

The combination of our many years of experience and proprietary models with Bloomberg’s BQuant Enterprise platform forms an ideal basis for our “Quant as a Service” offering. In a co-development approach, we work with banks, asset managers and professional investors – including pension funds, foundations and family offices – to develop customised systematic investment solutions and help optimise existing investment strategies.

Whether large or small caps, developed or emerging markets, ESG or fundamental data – the platform offers comprehensive data access and facilitates the implementation of pioneering machine learning and artificial intelligence methods within a modern cloud computing environment. This enables us to respond flexibly to the individual needs of our customers in the shortest possible time.

Many thanks to Mohammed Shayan, Javier Mital Valdes, Richard Kitt and the entire BQuant team for their active support. We look forward to continuing our close co-operation in the future.

Bloomberg press release

QuantArea receives FINMA license: An important quality standard

We are pleased to announce that QuantArea AG has been awarded a FINMA asset management license. Following our successful market entry at the end of December, this is the next milestone in the company’s development.

We focus on the design of tailor-made investment solutions for banks, insurance companies, asset managers, professional investors (including pension funds, foundations, family offices) and selected private clients. We develop efficient and effective investment strategies for our clients and deliver tailor-made, implementable model portfolios. We call this new business model in Switzerland “Quant as a Service”.

The team is growing – welcome Urs Winzenried

We are delighted to welcome Urs Winzenried as a new partner in our team. He will serve as the Head of Clients & Business Development.

Urs brings extensive experience in the asset management industry, having most recently led the Client Advisory team at OLZ AG, a Swiss-based asset manager. Prior to that, he worked as a portfolio manager at UBS, LGT, and Julius Baer.

We are excited to collaborate with Urs on the future development of QuantArea.

Experienced team launches company with «Quant as a Service» business model

The financial sector is changing. «Open finance» and «open banking» are fragmenting established value chains and opening up opportunities for new market participants. This is where we come in:«Quant as a Service».

We focus on our core competence – the development of quantitative investment solutions. We offer banks, asset managers and professional investors access to the latest technological solutions and assist them in their implementation.

Answers to frequently asked questions:

You all worked for many years in key positions for an established asset manager. What made you found QuantArea AG?

Does Switzerland need another FINMA-regulated asset manager?

Why will the Quant as a Service business model succeed?

Why quant strategies? Do they achieve a higher return?

Why is the collaboration with Bloomberg relevant?