Cutting Edge
Quant Headhunter
Since 2014 HW Anderson has been a market leader as a buy side focused Quant headhunter. We are uniquely positioned with a track record across both Quant/HFT firms as well as Discretionary investors. Moreover, we work with these firms both to build out alpha generating investment teams as well as identifying elite quantitative talent that provides support across risk, data and model building functions. Given our history as a quant headhunter we have seen the evolution of the function and implementation initially of Alt Data and Machine Learning techniques and more recently the integration of LLM and AI. We track top tier Quantitative talent from their first year in “industry” and maintain good relations with many leading PhD programmes all the way through to individuals who have reached Portfolio Manager level.
Coverage
Functional Scope
As a Quant headhunter specialists, we operate globally to identify top quantitative talent for hedge funds, merchant houses, and proprietary trading firms. We have an excellent track record as quantitative research headhunters, recruiting quantitative researchers, developers, and traders across macro, equities, credit, and commodities. We specialize in sourcing candidates who can combine fundamental analytics with quantitative expertise and coding skills to enhance trading insights or quantitative research individuals who have created and are able to create their own systematic trading strategies. We also work with our clients to identify quantitative developers with asset class expertise to drive the creation and maintenance of trading infrastructure and quantitative research tools to enhance their edge within the market. Functions include:
Portfolio Managers and Speculative Traders
Portfolio Managers and Speculative Traders
We work with hedge funds and trading houses to identify individuals who utilize cutting-edge, quantitative strategies across macro, equities, credit, and commodities to generate profitable PnL in both the physical and financial markets. As a leading quant headhunter we have existing relationships with senior-level talent and are continuously developing relationships with junior-level talent across products and geographies. We have also successfully completed several meaningful quant team lift outs.
Quantitative Researchers
Quantitative Researchers
We work to identify quantitative research professionals with experience in quantitative or quantamental strategy creation across macro, equities, credit, and commodities. Our fully-systematic clients utilize our expertise as quantitative research recruiters to identify candidates with expertise in alpha generation – including signal research, backtesting, and implementation, to create and improve strategies. As a quant headhunter, we also work with fundamentally-driven clients to identify quantitative research talent to develop and maintain models and provide quantitative support to add value for our clients’ discretionary trading strategies.
Quantitative Developers
Quantitative Developers
We work with our clients to recruit developers with asset class experience to build out their quantitative infrastructure and trading platforms as they enter new markets, improve existing platforms to increase their trading presence in active markets, and build tools to reduce inefficiencies in both trade execution and operations areas.
Global Coverage
Local Networks
With offices across NYC, the EU, the UK and the UAE, HW Anderson is uniquely positioned as a quant headhunter to generate exceptional talent across the spectrum for our clientele. We have placed quantitative talent in over 70 locations worldwide spanning Los Angeles to Hong Kong.
CLIENT TYPES
Diverse Relationships
We have strong existing and developing relationships with leading buy-side institutions, providing our market mapping and executive search expertise to a wide variety of clients globally. However, our clients who look to hire quantitative researchers across macro, equities, credit, and commodities markets and products broadly fall into these three main categories.
HEDGE FUNDS
HEDGE FUNDS
Our hedge fund clients are continuing to diversify investment strategies by expanding into macro, equities, credit, and commodities markets, across both purely systematic and fundamentally-driven strategies. As quantitative research recruiters we work to provide quantitative talent to ensure the development of the most rigorous trading insights and strategies across all investment styles.
PROPRIETARY TRADING FIRMS
PROPRIETARY TRADING FIRMS
We work with quantitative and discretionary proprietary trading firms to identify quantitative researchers and traders with algorithmic trading experience across macro, equities, credit, and commodities businesses.
MERCHANTS
MERCHANTS
We work with leading, privately-held global merchant houses to identify leading front office trading and research talent as they grow their quantitative footprint in the physical and financial commodities markets, and increasingly explore applications of systematic strategies across macro and credit.
Contact
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Team
Our People
Within the hyper-competitive and tight-knit trading and investment community our growth as a firm since inception has been exponential and truly organic. Every specialist HW Anderson consultant has been trained in-house and from-scratch. This ensures our methodology is original and consistent and that our culture is unique. Thanks to this growth we are positioned as a leader in Trans-Atlantic front office search. With three established offices, in the USA, UK and EU, our talented team is uniquely positioned to deliver meaningful value for our clients into the future.
