Mission & needs

The quantitative researcher’s mission is to design investment algorithms and combine them within model portfolios.

Portfolio construction requires working from two angles:

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Performance driver identification, and

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The understanding and controlling of the risks of the portfolio as well as the correlations between the constituent strategies or assets

Designing investment models requires:
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Backtesting:

i.e., faithfully reproducing the historical behavior of portfolios by integrating management constraints and avoiding common pitfalls: look-ahead bias, survivor bias in the indices, underestimation of transaction costs and market impacts

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Easy access

Easy access and manipulation of any type of data relevant for building portfolios

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Quick testing

Quick testing of any ideas or intuitions

What StarQube offers

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    A NoSQL database, optimized for calculations, structured around a unique and natively “point-in-time” repository
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    A simplified language for handling data and building risk models or “optimization” objects by simply setting parameters
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    A backtest engine
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    Exceptional calculation speed, thanks to the combination of the NoSQL database (calculation orders of magnitude faster than a relational base) and the conic optimizer
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    A series of APIs that can extend the scope of possibilities (Python, Matlab, Excel, C, C++, .NET, REST, Java)
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    Permissions and version-control tools to share backtests with other employees while minimizing operational risks

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