![Chart representing "Active and Passive Fund Flows to Saudi Arabia Stocks, year-to-date"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Quants-Corner-0924-1.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 "Active and Passive Fund Flows to Saudi Arabia Stocks, year-to-date"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Quants-Corner-0924-1.webp)
![Chart representing the 'Top 10 benchmark indexes by tracked number of funds'.](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Capture.jpg)
The global evolution of low-volatility investment in asset management
![Chart representing "Volatility comparisons per region"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Quants-Corner-0716-1.webp)
Quants Corner – Low-volatility investing continues to shine
![Chart representing "Difference between High vs Low Risk Flows"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Quant-Corner-0618-1-1.webp)
Quants Corner – Global risk appetite: Multi-asset fund flows
![Chart representing "3-month cumulative flows to FANG stocks"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Quant-Corner-0528-1.webp)
Quants Corner – How are investors positioned in FANG Stocks?
![Chart representing "Distributions of Fund Flows to Bonds & Equities (%) in May-Oct and Nov-Apr periods (2000-2019)"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Quant-Corner-0424-1.webp)
Are we going to see a melt-down instead of a melt-up in May?
![Chart representing "US Average Weights - Active vs Passive Managers %"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Quant-Corner-0402-1.webp)
Utilizing EPFR data to find answers to key asset management questions
![Chart representing "EM Equity Flow percentage Volatility (3m rolling)"](https://epfr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Quant-Corner-0304-1.webp)