Introduction
      2 messages in this talk:
       – Systematica Investments as an example of a Financial employer
       – Transition from Particle Physics to Financial world  
      Why would a financial institution hire someone with no Finance/Business/Economic 
       degree ?
       – Large movement among discretionary hedge funds to become quant-like in their processes
         » Systematize an investment approach to reduce human decisional risk from the process
         » Asset Under Management (AUM) up-scalability of systematic investment processes that is too complex 
           and impossible to realize within discretionary approaches.
       – Research and Quantitative analysis side requires some advanced mathematical/Statistical skills 
         while analyzing big quantities of data that Particle Physicist (also computer scientists, 
         engineers or natural scientists) are well trained for.
       – Technology side requires knowledge in computing/databases and computing languages that 
         are most likely to be found within Scientists (SQL, Java, Python, C++, Grid computing,…)
            
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     What is Systematica Investments ? (I)
      Systematica Investments is a hedge fund:
       – Investment process is systematized  and is managed by computer algorithms
       – CTA, Equity Market Neutral, Alternative Markets, Risk Premium
      Systematica Investments in a nutshell
       – Launched in January 2015 after a decade of experience within BlueCrest Capital Management
       – Founded by Leda Braga 
       – Focus on rigorously applying science and technology to the investment process. 
       – Manages approximately $9bn across a number of futures and equity based strategies. 
       – Philosophy of the firm:
         » Innovation, excellence in research
         » Commitment to fostering strong alignment with investors. 
       – Global presence with offices in Jersey, Geneva, London, New York and Singapore.
      Investors:
       – Institutional: Pension funds, Sovereign Funds.
       – Private banks and Investment banks. 
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     What is Systematica Investments ? (II)
      Competitors:
       – CTA: Winton, MAN-AHL, AQR, Aspect
       – Equity Market Neutral: RAM (Geneva), Marshall-Wace, GSA, Old Mutual
       – Alternative Markets:  MAN-AHL, Florin Court
       – Risk Premium: GSA 
      Systematica Groups: 
       – Executives and product management (~10)
       – Technology (~30)
       – Modeling and research (~30)
       – Execution and Trading (~10)
       – Finance and Accounting, Back-office, Compliance, HR. (~30)
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    Work environment @ Systematica Investments
     Team Culture & Investment Philosophy
      – To be systematic investors and to avoid human intervening with models
        »  Intervention via research process only
      – Collaborative working environment within and across all functional teams
      – Significant investment in technology
        » Workstations, Servers, Grid and Trading platforms
        » Database and software licenses
        » Market data feeds & Data purchase, data centers
        » Manpower   
      – All aspects of the investment process and platform are subject to continuous research and 
        improvement
      – Rigorous review by peers throughout the research and development cycle
      – The pursuit of excellence permeates all of Systematica activities
     Collaborative research environment with a diversity of coworker profiles
     Smooth transition from Particle Physics to hedge fund industry
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     Innovation in today’s businesses
      Huge number of tools (services, analytics, data management,…) can be purchased/hired or downloaded 
       for free and used by anyone to perform impressive tasks
          Why hiring a scientist then ? 
      Most valuable business projects are becoming similar to research projects
       – One hand: large number of projects fail to bring the expected value
       – Other hand: project run by small team can disrupt an entire industry with big return on investment
       – Often needed: design projects that change their goals along the way
           Innovation is a key
      Not only sophisticated skills but also solid bases
       – Use the tools but asses their reliability and limitations
       – Continuous learning a adaptation
       – Able to see big picture as well as technical details
       – Able to judge the right time to change
      Particle physicist is well trained for above
       – Learn from scratch, build and share
       – work under pressure, independence and tolerance of long hours working with code and data.
      But First: you need to trig the business world interest by showing experience with some appropriate 
       tools
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