Category: Authored by Ben Reeves

• 04.08.22 – Squaring up with Wicked Problems

  

  The Research and Development team at Viewpoint is a big fan of design thinking. The iterative cycles of understanding the problem space, ideating, prototyping, and testing have compelling parallels to the quantitative research process. One of those parallels is a concept from design theory that captures the complexity of working in global financial markets: Wicked Problems. Wicked…

  investedvip

  April 11, 2022

  Authored by Ben Reeves

• 02.25.22 – “hyper-deflation by design”

  Hyper-deflation by Design Author: Ben Reeves — Senior Vice-President, Data Science & Engineering What is nightmare fuel for Federal reserve chairmen? The looming specter of deflation. When your capital buys you more in the future than it does today, it becomes profitable for individuals and businesses to hoard their money, and both investment and spending are discouraged. The…

  investedvip

  February 24, 2022

  Authored by Ben Reeves

• 01.28.22 – “are quants left brained or right brained?”

  Are Quants Left Brained or Right Brained? Author: Ben Reeves — Senior Vice-President, Data Science & Engineering To be a successful systematic investor, should you approach modelling by breaking markets down into separable components and understanding each piece in isolation? Or should you instead think about the market as a complete and heuristic whole: a zeitgeist which…

  investedvip

  January 31, 2022

  Authored by Ben Reeves