On April 3rd, José Ignacio de Andrés Blanco, CFA, PRM, CIPM and Thomas Plunkett CFA represented CFA Society Ireland at the Next-Gen Quant Investing/ Quant Awards 2025 event in the Netherlands.
Experts in the field including Mike Chen (Robeco) and Simon Trimborn (University of Amsterdam) met to discuss the future of quantitative investing, highlighting key trends, such as developments in and the integration of AI and the influence of meme-driven market dynamics.
Winners of the European Quant Awards 2024, Maurits van Altvorst (Netherlands,1st Place), Anne Coll Franck (Spain, 2nd Place) and Xuyang Lin (France, 3rd Place), presented cutting-edge research spanning stochastic volatility modeling, weather derivatives and forecasting, and macroeconomic prediction using Economic Track Portfolios. Their work underscored how both traditional statistical approaches and modern machine learning techniques are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in quant finance.