Recognizing a lack of conferences focusing exclusively on the growing quantitative hedge fund community, hedge fund visionary Bartt C. Kellerman's Global Capital Acquisition created Battle of the Quants in 2006. Together with Academia, Asset Allocators and Quantitative focused hedge funds, the conference combines the various quant disciplines in one location to explore and discuss the critical issues confronting the quantitative approach to finance. One of the most innovative components and biggest draws of the event is the stimulating discussion between the systematic approach vs. the discretionary approach to investing, also referred to as the Main Battle. Other panels have included the Investor Panel (very popular with managers seeking how to increase AUM, the How to Extract Alpha Panel and new for this year is the Current Financial Market Review which explores the quantitative field's impact on the current financial crisis).

After careful planning, the first conference was launched in New York City in 2007 to great acclaim. The event was taken overseas to London and has now become an annual international event always filling venues to capacity.

With an audience made up of hedge funds, wealth management, investment and asset management firms as well as solution providers, The Battle of the Quants brings together an outstanding faculty of advanced thinkers in the quantitative space. No other forum provides this level of content innovation, critical thinkers and networking opportunities that continue to build each year. The event has evolved and continues to attract high profile speakers from Nassim Taleb to Paul Wilmott.

Over the past three years, The Battle of the Quants has involved companies and speakers including:

  • EFX Capital LLC
  • EIM Management (USA) Inc.
  • Eisenberg family office LLC
  • Ellie Investments (family office)
  • Emerging Manager
  • Entropy Limited
  • Equities Magazine
  • Ermitage Asset Management Jersey Limited
  • Etheios
  • Factset
  • FatKat Inc.
  • Fauchier Partners
  • Fayette Investment Management, La
  • Fidelity Investments
  • Fimat
  • Financial Risk Management Ltd
  • First Derivative
  • Fortis
  • Fox River Execution Technology
  • Galbraith Capital
  • GFI Group
  • GLG Partners LP
  • Global Capital Acquisition
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing, L.P.
  • Gottex Fund Management
  • Harald Quandt Holding
  • Harcourt Alternative Investments
  • Harcourt Investment Consulting AG
  • Hedge Connection Inc.
  • Hedge Invest SGR
  • Henderson Global Investors
  • Hermes Pensions Management Ltd
  • HFIM [Hedge Funds Investment Management Ltd]
  • HNW
  • IAM - International Asset Management
  • ICAP
  • ICMA Centre - The Business School for Financial Markets
  • ICMA Centre, University of Reading
  • IMD Management
  • Imperial College
  • ING Investment Management - FOF
  • ING Investment Management Americas
  • Inspira
  • Institute for Advanced Study
  • International Asset Management Limited
  • Investcorp
  • Jane Street Capital
  • JI CAPITAL Ltd
  • JP Morgan
  • JPMorgan Alternative Asset Management
  • KTH Fund Management LLP
  • La Fayette Management USA, LLC
  • Lehman Brothers International
  • Lehman Brothers International
  • Lighthouse Investment Partners, LLC.
  • Lime Brokerage
  • London Business School
  • London Business School, BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre
  • LORD NORTH STREET LIMITED
  • Luo Capital Advisors
  • Lyster Watson
  • M4 Systems
  • Madison Square Investors
  • Magnitude Capital
  • Man Global Strategies
  • Manhattan Family Office, LLC
  • MarketPsych
  • Merrill Lynch
  • Millennium Partners
  • Minerva Alternative Strategies, Inc.
  • Montier Partners
  • Morgan Stanley | Investment Management
  • Morgan Stanley, Wealth Advisor
  • MSCI Barra
  • Mulvaney Capital
  • Mulveney
  • New Finance Partners
  • NewEdge Group
  • NewFinance Capital Partners
  • Nobilis Capital
  • North Lord Street Ltd.
  • NYLIM
  • Opalesque
  • OPPORTUNITE S.A
  • Optimal Investment Services
  • Oxford
  • Partners Group
  • Passport Capital
  • PCE Investos Limited
  • PDVM
  • Penjing Asset Management Ltd.,
  • Permal Capital Management, LLC
  • PORTHAVEN INVESTMENTS
  • Poseidon Development SA
  • Prime Capital Asset Management AG
  • Private Investor
  • Proteom Capital
  • PWMUS
  • Pyramis Global Advisors
  • QSG
  • Quant Works
  • Quantitative Services Group LLC
  • Quantlab Financial, LLC
  • QWAFAFEW
  • Rasini & C. Ltd
  • RBS
  • Revere Data LLC
  • Rice & Dore Associates Inc.
  • Richcourt Fund Advisors
  • Riskdata
  • Ritchie Quantitative Strategies
  • Riverview Alternative Investment Advisors
  • RMF Investment Management
  • Robert R. Meredith & Co.
  • Rotella Capital Management
  • SAC
  • Safra Asset Management
  • Sal-Oppenheim
  • SB Schonfeld Fund Advisors LLC
  • Schonfeld Fund Advisors
  • Schroder Investment Management
  • Securities Finance International
  • SG Asset Management Inc
  • Shore Capital
  • Siemens
  • Silver Jet
  • Sir John Cass Business School, City University
  • SSARIS Advisors, LLC
  • Stafford Asset Management, LLC
  • Systeia Capital Management
  • Telesis Capital LLC
  • Text Quant
  • Third Wave Global Investors, LLC
  • Thomson Reuters
  • Timberpost
  • Trader Psyches
  • TradeWorx
  • Tremont Capital Management
  • Tudor
  • Tunnelbrook Capital
  • Two Sigma Investments, LLC
  • UBS
  • UBS AG
  • UBS Alternative and Quantitative Investments LLC
  • University of Chicago
  • VanthedgePoint Securities, LLC
  • Vernon Square Capital LLC
  • Weisbrod Family Office
  • Weston Capital Advisers Ltd
  • Wiesing Investments
  • Zebra

 

The Battle of the Quants is also a proud supporter of A Leg to Stand On, a charitable organization dedicated to helping transform the lives of children with limb disabilities in developing countries by offering them the physical capabilities to access the opportunities and self-esteem earned through education, work and mobility.

 

About the Founder of The Battle of the Quants
Bartt C. Kellermann is currently the Founder and CEO of Global Capital Acquisition (GCA). GCA, founded in 2002, is a consulting firm assisting Investors to find smart, innovative and sound investments ideas in the alternative investment space . Global Capital Acquisition also manages the Battle of the Quants meetings in the United States, Western Europe and Asia. Mr. Kellermann is a regular speaker at hedge fund conferences internationally and has appeared on MSNBC and Bloomberg TV reflecting on the current state of the hedge fund industry. Mr. Kellermann is a Registered Representative with the NASD and has an MBA from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and an undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College.

bartt@battleofthequants.com

 

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