Trading ideas emerging from research
I am currently a student and work as a research assistant for a professor who's field of research is event studies. While his work is not directly targeted at trading strategies, it does offer some insights about anomalies in market behavior which could be used as a starting point for trading ideas - at least I suppose that's the case. He told me that after the publishment of some of his works he was invited by some funds in NYC to give a short presentation of it.
What my question is and about what I'm wondering is whether some traders do start their career from the research side? I'm not talking of pure quants here, coming from a MINT background but rather economists who previously were delving into capital markets and whose results came in handy for generating trading ideas.
Any thoughts on the topic are highly appreciated!
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Short answer is Yes.
The longer answer ...
There are a lot of funds which trade/invest systematically and are looking for ideas for new trading strategies. A lot of them are looking onto academia and they appreciate researchers which are coming up with research which is practical and can be used in a real life. They can sometimes hire researcher to implement idea as a standalone strategy/fund. Some well-known researchers work as consultants for hedge funds.
Just to give you an example - https://www.robeco.com/en/insights/authors/pim-van-vliet.html. Pim Van Vliet started as a researcher at university and his specialization was equity pricing and he later joined Robeco where he helped to create their factor strategies. There are a lot of examples like this ...
There are a lot of researchers at universities which are working on market anomalies, trading strategies etc. Just check www.quantpedia.com (The Encyclopedia of Quantitative Trading Strategies) if you want to have an idea how broad the financial research about trading strategies is. Financial academic research is very important for hedge/mutual funds and there is a lot of mobility between academia and finance industry ...
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