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Key Terms and Players of Operations Research
More and more companies are turning to data analysts and mathematical engineers to solve key business problems. Here's a guide to the key players and the basic lexicon of their craft — operations research. Key Players Oracle: Oracle is one...
Tags: Optimization, Modeling, Oracle Corp., BNET Feature, Quant, Analytics, Quantitative Analysis, Ilog, Operations Research, Andrew Hines, Software, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Research & Development, Productivity, Enterprise Application, Technique
Articles 2008-02-13
What Really Counts
As a financial planner, I spend a lot of time around numbers-tax numbers, investment numbers, planning numbers, business numbers. In fact, some people have accused me of being a "quant." A quant is someone totally focused on hard numbers and analytics, so As a financial planner, I spend a lot...
Tags: financial, financial planning, Financial Planning Association, income, income statement, quant
Research articles 2006-09-01
Sales & Marketing Jobs That Will Vanish
In this morning's post, I explained that the current economy is going to leave many sales professionals without a job.   But it's not just the economy that presents a threat -- it's the Internet, which makes many traditional sales and marketing jobs obsolete.  As businesses get...
Tags: Marketing, Quant, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Geoffrey James
Blog posts 2009-03-24

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Stop press. (Procter and Gamble Co. sells Mary Quant cosmetics brand to Mary Quant Cosmetics Japan Ltd.)
Procter & Gamble has sold its Mary Quant cosmetics brand to Mary Quant Cosmetics Japan Ltd. The Japanese company currently markets a prestige Mary Quant line of its own, rather than P&G's volume-positioned brand, and is likely to extend distribProcter & Gamble has sold its Mary Quant...
Tags: brand, cosmetics, Procter & Gamble Co.
Research articles 1993-03-25
Bio-Quant Corrects Contact Phone Number in Release Issued Earlier, BW2398
Business Editors CORRECTION...by Bio-Quant, Inc. --BUSINESS WIRE In BW2398 (CA-BIO-QUANT) Bio-Quant Creates New GPCR Screening Division; New Division for Cost-Effective Technology That Enables Faster Time-to-Market for New Drug Remedies, in the contact information, read the number for Bio-Quant, Inc. as xxx 858/450-0142 (sted 858/587-1562).
Tags: Business Wire, phone
Research articles 2001-09-05
Analysis Paralysis? How "Quant"
The cure for analysis paralysis, says Andrew Hines, is OR, or operations research, a set of deep data mining and analytics techniques. OR has helped mighty Proctor & Gamble --- a company so huge it all but boasts its own weather system --- to continue to win in just about...
Tags: Michael Mattis, Analysis, Paralysis, Procter & Gamble Co.
Blog posts 2008-02-15
Quant joins House of Fraser board
Mary Quant pictured right, the British designer who revolutionised fashion with the mini-skirt in the early 1960s, has joined retail group House of Fraser as a non-executive director. A company spokesman said Ms Quant's experience of the fashion and retail business would benefit House of Fraser, which sells...
Tags: House of Fraser Plc.
Research articles 1997-04-16
Bruker AXS Inc. Launches GEO-QUANT - Faster & Easier XRF Solutions Designed Specifically for the Geology, Mineral and Mining Sectors
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- At the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America GSA, Bruker AXS Inc., announces the launch of GEO-QUANT, trace element analysis solutions designed specifically for geology, minerals and mining applications. GEO-QUANT is a unique solution that performs quantitative analysis of geological materials right...
Tags: Bruker AXS Inc.
Research articles 2005-10-17
Schwab pays $16M for quant shop.
Charles Schwab Corp. executives were mum in November on how much they had paid to acquire Chicago Investment Analytics Inc., but a recent stock registration filing indicated the quant shop's three top officers equally shared Schwab stock worth a co Charles Schwab Corp. executives...
Tags: Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., stock
Research articles 2000-12-11
Axa quant model is questioned by S&P.
Byline: No significant developments to quant model in recent years cited as causal factor Byline: No significant developments to quant model in recent years cited as causal factor
Tags: S&P
Research articles 2007-04-28
Axa quant model is questioned by S&P.
Byline: No significant developments to quant model in recent years cited as causal factor Byline: No significant developments to quant model in recent years cited as causal factor
Tags: S&P
Research articles 2007-02-26
Whatman, Part of GE Healthcare, and VigeneTech Launch Custom Software for Fast Quant® System
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Whatman, part of GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), and VigeneTech, today announced the launch of custom software to analyze Whatman FAST Quant([R]) samples. The customized OEM software from VigeneTech provides high quality image quantification and enhances the automation for Whatman FAST Quant([R])protein...
Tags: General Electric Co., health care
Research articles 2008-06-12
Today's fashion has no rules: Mary Quant, inventor of the mini-skirt
PARIS AFP ? Mary Quant, the fashion queen of Britain's swinging 1960s who has gone down in the history books as the inventor of the mini-skirt, says fashion today knows no rules. "I think that at the moment in fashion the mood is for individuality," Quant told AFP in...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Entrepreneurship, London, optimism, Paris
Research articles 2004-06-20
Colonial ready to unleash quant squad.
Jun 07, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) A CEO is being sought to head a joint venture between Australia's Colonial First State and Acadian. The two fund managers are progressing with plans to set up a quant fund. Quant funds base...
Tags: Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Research articles 2005-06-07
Goldman Quant Case Continues
Eric Falkenstein submits: The Goldman Sachs GS quant case that brought High Frequency Trading into the blogosphere keeps getting interesting. The ex-Goldman quant sure sounds guilty. Why hire a programmer who came to Goldman without financial experience, and worked there only a couple years, for $1.1MM? Whence did he...
Tags: Financial, Eric Falkenstein, Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
External links 2009-08-27
Rehmann Financial's Alpha Quant Portfolio Earns Five Star Rating from Morningstar
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Rehmann Financial, a member of The Rehmann Group, is pleased to announce that Rehmann Financial's Alpha Quant Portfolio earned a five star rating with Morningstar.
Tags: Morningstar Inc.
Research articles 2007-02-27
Meet the Latest Quant ?Newbie?
Greg Newton submits: More evidence, ’twas it needed, which it ’twazznt, of the sad decline of the New York Post’s once sagacious business section. Paul Tudor Jones’ trading firm Tudor Investment might be a newbie to trading mathematical- quant strategies but it has soared to the top of the sector...
Tags: Media, Financial
External links 2008-08-25
Merrill rolls out retail quant fund.(Brief Article)
Sep 30, 2004 (Money Management - ABIX via COMTEX) Merrill Lynch Investment Managers MLIM has made its new fund, the Merrill Lynch Australian Quant Strategies Fund, accessible to retail investors. The fund was launched to institutional investors in November 2003. Ken Liow, portfolio manager...
Tags: FINANCE, investor
Research articles 2004-09-30
Fund managers turn to quant research teams.
European fund managers are increasingly turning to equity quantitative research to cope with today's complex and more global trading strategies. Once the preserve of the fixed-income research set, equity departments are either starting from scratch, strengthening existing quant teams or broadening their product range to cater...
Tags: ABN AMRO, equity, FINANCE, Investment, stock, strategy, team
Research articles 2001-07-09
News: Quant managers fight for 130/30 fund crown.
Byline: Ryan Harrison Competition between the UK's top quant managers is reaching fever pitch as providers vie for lucrative unconstrained pension mandates with 130/30 funds. Traditional quantitative managers including State Street, Axa Rosenberg and Invesco, have flooded the UK institutional...
Tags: Benefits, Invesco, State Street Corp., Strategy, U.K.
Research articles 2007-04-23
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