![Chart representing "Yearly Bond Issuance Volume in Billion Euro"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/QC-110320-1.webp)
Sayad Baronyan
Sayad Baronyan, Chief Innovation Officer, leads research and development efforts at EPFR. His team mines fund flows and positioning data, develops quantitative and qualitative research content, and creates analytics around EPFR’s datasets.
Before joining EPFR, Sayad headed the multi-asset funds desk at HSBC Global Asset Management in Istanbul, where he managed roughly $500 million of assets under management and a range of products in the multi-asset space. He leverages his portfolio management background to offer deeper insights to clients. He is also a Research Associate at the Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics.
Outside the office, Sayad, a native of Istanbul, is an avid football fan and a prolific reader of financial economics who devotes most of his time to his family.
MSc, Computational Science - Istanbul Technical University.
Ph.D, Finance - Özyeğin University (Istanbul).
![Chart representing "Yearly Bond Issuance Volume in Billion Euro"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/QC-110320-1.webp)
![Chart representing 'Net flows year-to-date, in percentage of AUM, to major Developed Markets Equity ETFs and MFs'](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Chart2-mock-20221118.jpg)
FX allocations quantitative strategy
![Chart representing "Frugal and Other Flows from 2014 -2020"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Quant-Corner-1007-1.webp)
Quants Corner – Frugality: A virtue whose time has come or gone?
![Image of chart representing "YTD change, in basis points for GEM Equity Fund allocations to major markets"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Preditive-power-thumbnail-1024x772.jpg)
The predictive power of EPFR data: A Quantitative perspective
![Image of chart representing "Cumulative weekly flows YTD, in % of AuM for major and all Money Market Fund groups"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/The-visible-hand-policy-moves-and-their-impact-thumbnail-1024x771.jpg)
Central banks: Policy moves and their impact during the Covid crisis
![Chart representing "Number of funds reporting FX Allocations"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Quant-Corner-0525-1.webp)
Quants Corner – Bulls in an FX shop
![Chart representing "Average Hedge Fund Short Position rate of Total Shares Outstanding"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Hedge-Fund-0408-1.webp)
Investigating the evolution of hedge funds positioning European sectors and potential explanations during the recent crisis
![Chart representing "Evolution of average short positions as % of total shares of outstanding 22.01 and 25"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/imoneynet-0407.webp)
Changes in hedge fund short positioning after the start of Covid-19 crisis
![Chart representing "Average Hedge Fund Short Position rate of Total Shares Outstanding"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Hayley-0406-2-1.webp)
Exploring hedge fund short positioning in European sectors before the market sell-off using Caretta data
![Chart representing "US Money Market Cumulative Flows"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Quant-Corner-0324-1.webp)
Quants Corner – Money market fund flows: Fear is not their only signal
![Chart representing "Month-on-Month Cumulative Percentage Flow for 2019"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Quants-Corner-1216-4.webp)
Quants Corner – Brazil economy 2020 bust or boom?
![Chart representing "UK Mandated Equity Fund Flows around Elections & Brexit Referandum"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Quants-Corner-1112-1.webp)