Jacob Bowers, Vice President is a lead financial engineer at BlackRock providing quantitative coverage and model servicing to our multi-asset systematic funds. His work at BlackRock has included implementing inflation hedging strategies for allocation funds, building backtesting frameworks for systematic strategies, and exploring machine learning approaches for portfolio optimization. Before joining BlackRock, Jacob worked as a computational scientist and graduate student researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory exploring applications of mathematical modelling to various problems in the physical sciences.
Discussion Points:
• Share practical examples of multi-asset signal construction and validation
• Discuss infrastructure needed for cross-asset strategy integration
• Explore alpha decay and diversification techniques
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