Quant MeetUp: Mutual funds data and strategies for post-QE world

Join our Quants Corner MeetUp group, hosted by Quants for Quants. Our first MeetUp, ‘Quant in a cold climate: Talk mutual fund data and strategies for a post-QE world with the EPFR team,’ will be hosted virtually on March 31st at 12PM EST/ 5PM GMT for our Boston and London Quants Corner groups.

Meet members of EPFR’s quant team who will discuss data trends over the last two years and signals they have extracted from the universe of 142,000 mutual fund and ETF share classes tracked by EPFR. The team will share their insights about the recent surge in prices, and its effect on global monetary policy, backed by some of their recent works.

We look forward to hearing your questions in this informal setting, and hope to meet you in person in the near future.

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