Quant funds in west coast
Which quant funds are there in the west coast? I am interested in understanding this. Please help me. Thanks.
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Really not that many To name a few San Francisco/Bay Area:
Blackrock - their systematic active equity business and I believe systematic fixed income hedge fund are here. Both top notch if you're looking for buyside quant gigs.
Voleon Group - bunch of PhDs from Berkeley/Stanford with mediocre returns
Parallax volatility advisors - don't know much
QVR advisors - don't know much
Cutler Group (RIP) - used to be the only OMM on the west coast as far as I know. Shuttered like 2 months ago. Apparently investors wanted their money back.
Woodline Partners - not quant really but do hire some quants. Top notch fundamental equity l/s shop I hear though.
LA/SoCal
PIMCO - the big daddy of fixed income AM. Pay very well at the higher levels (I think if you make EVP you can make around a million, very tough to make it that high up though). Do hire a ton of quants. However you gotta wear a shirt and tie in Newport Beach :(.
Crabel - Knew one guy who used to work here who called this place really shitty if you are a technical person. YMMV
Research Affiliates - not too familiar with them but definitely quant.
TGS - Rentech in Irvine, CA. Pretty much impossible to get a job here.
Seattle
Evergreen statistical trading - Radix trading spinoff. Don't know if they launched yet or not but just have one guy thus far but they're looking to hire ig.
Thanks for such a detailed answer. What about crypto? Any good funds there?
I know a few in SF
Dexterity capital - don't know much but they've been around for a while so probably make some money
KBit, GSR also have small outfits here I think.
Pantera capital - tiger cub crypto I think.
Bitwise asset management - they're trying to become the blackrock of crypto by being the first to offer index funds in crypto
Crypto is really scattered so while there might be like 20-30 shops most will be unknown entities with 2 dudes in a basement. There really aren't gigantic corporations in this space yet.
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