abstract:A quantitative analyst is a person who works in finance using numerical or quantitative techniques. Similar work is done in most other modern industries, but the work is not always called quantitative analysis.
"Friday's disappointingemployment data out of the U.S. added weight to calls fora fresh round of quantitativeeasingfrom the Fed," saidChrisWeston, researchanalyst atigIndex.
"It seems like we're due for a consolidation at some point, but what we saw was awfully mild, " said Brian Lazorishak, portfolio manager and quantitativeanalyst at Chase Investment Counsel.
This was mostly down to high house prices, high youth unemployment, rising public debt and the cost of education, added Prof Sefton, who is also a quantitativeanalyst at UBS bank.