Quant Strats 2025

March 11, 2025

Quorum by Convene, NY, USA

Kathryn Kaminski

Chief Research Strategist & Portfolio Manager AlphaSimplex Group

Kathryn Kaminski is the Chief Research Strategist and Portfolio Manager at AlphaSimplex Group, a company that researches and analyzes market behaviours and risk to help investors.

Kathryn is an author of multiple industry whitepapers and contributory author for the CAIA and CFA reading materials on hedge funds and managed futures, and the co-author of: "Trend Following with Managed Futures: The Search for Crisis Alpha" Wiley Trading 2014. 

She was also listed as one of the Top 50 leading women in Hedge Funds, (Hedge Fund Journal 2015) and listed in the 100 Women in HFs CAIA Scholar (2011).

Kathryn holds a PhD in Operations Research and a B.S in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


Tuesday 11th March agenda

9:30 AM State of the Union: What does the current macro environment mean for you?

This ‘state of the union’ type panel deciphers just what has happened over the past year, with volatility, uncertainty and seismic technological advancements garnering speed, this panel has a look at what that means for the Quant Strats community. 


  • What strategies and tools have generated alpha over the past year? How does an organisation allocate assets and who have been the winners? 
  • How will self-learning technological advancement be scaled and impact global financial markets? Are we starting to see a shift? 
  • Where are the risks in the wider market, funds and diversified portfolios? How is this exposure being managed? 

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Kathryn.

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