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2-Day Quant Investment Course designed for Retail Investors
Take advantage of quant-based, model-driven investment strategies for 10% - 15% returns P.A.
Have you ever wondered:
- How does quant investing work - curious about fundamental, mechanics and best practices of quant investing. From how and where to start, to constructing, backtesting, implementing and optimising quant strategy.
- How could you apply quant investment strategy and achieve investment returns in the range of 10 - 15%, even if you do not possess any advanced mathematics, statistics, and financial background.
- How could you remove yourself from the emotionally draining activities of hour-by-hour monitoring stock prices, and following the latest corporate news. Yes, you could invest without doing all those!
- How could you take more control of your investment and earn higher returns with quant-based strategies used by leading financial institutions, yet avoid paying the high fees of management and administration to fund managers.
- Any off-the-shelf quant strategies that you could learn and deploy your capital right away without spending a 5-figure and years on academic education. Trust us as we have trainers who have CFA and masters in finance, and he said it did not help him in one bit. Why would it be a surprise as formal education is created to get you a job, not to train you to be a self-dependent investor.
If any one of the above has caught your interest, then this 2-day course is going to excite you.
To get a sneak peek of the programme, click on the REGISTER link on the right to reserve a free seat to our preview:
Quant-Led, Models-Driven Trending Following & Risk Parity Strategy.
You will be learning two advanced investment strategies using quant-based approach as well as applying leverage to achieve 10%-15% annual returns.
#1 TREND FOLLOWING
Trending following strategy is the most popular investment strategy after value investing. If value investing is about buy low and sell high, then trend following is about buy high and sell even higher.
#2 RISK PARITY
If the word risk parity sounds overt complex to you, it probably is. Most investment approach focuses on capital allocation, whereas risk parity focuses on risk allocation. The first risk parity fund is developed by Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world.
#3 COMBINATION!
When you combine both strategies, you would get smoother returns with the best-performing strategy balance out the second-best strategy to achieve higher overall portfolio returns.
No Blackbox, No Coding, No Expensive Subscriptions. Fully open, transparent, and use tools you are already familiar with.
You have heard that right.
You will learn the inside-outs and outside-ins of the models.
You will know exactly how the investment decisions are derived, rather than blindly following whatever the models say you should do. Backtested results do not mean actual results, but actual results mean real results.
- You will learn how to build models from scratch. Highly actionable and interactive class, this is not a course for passive theatrical learning.
- You will be given pre-build models so you can deploy your capital right away.
- Coding knowledge and tools are not required - you will be given scripts, pre-built models, Excel formula, and checklists used by our trainers.
- You do NEED basic statistics and simple Microsoft Excel's know-how to invest successfully with quant-based strategy.
No Chart Reading
We do not draw horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines to predict the price the security is going to land on. Signal is 100% generated from models.
No Candlesticks
We do not use candlesticks to generate entry or exit prices. So don't worry as you do not have to remember all the fanciful candlestick patterns.
No Technical Analysis
Fibonacci? Head and shoulder pattern? RSI? Bollinger Bands? Nope we do not use all those. Our signals are backtested, tested and optimised from quant-based approach.
No reading of Annual Reports Required
We do not rely on fundamental data, business model or Chairman's message to derive our investment decisions.
No following Corporate News Required
Corporate news are not important in determining our investment decisions. Hence, you need not have to follow any corporate news on the portfolio stocks.
Who are this programme for:
- Investors who are interested in quant investment strategy. But do not know where and how to start and do not want to deal with all the troubles of figuring out themselves.
- Investors who believe in the power of math and data to achieve reasonable financial returns for their effort.
- Investors who wish to improve their investment skillsets but are somewhat stuck facing the issue of "I don't know what I don't know." Quant-based investing would open your world to new possibilities and get you to the next level.
- Investors who dislike reading financial reports, following corporate news, studying business & industry because of its subjectivity, this course will greatly benefit you.
Who are this programme NOT for:
- People who want to get stock tips for some quick and easy gains.
- People who need motivational, rah-rah speeches to get them excited about money and financial freedom. Check out my amazing lifestyle!
- People who are looking to get a job into an investment firm.
- People who believe that quant investing course could turn you into an overnight millionaire. Well, you may be a millionaire one day by deploying the right strategy and disciplines. Just not overnight.
- People who are just overtly close-minded and sceptical about quant investment strategy, seeing human judgements and intuitions as the gospel truth for investment decisions. We respect your choice, this programme would not be suitable for you.
- People who are only interested in 'look-see look-see' on what we have to offer but have no intention to learn. We have limited seats for each preview, so only join us if you are genuinely interested to learn more.
Who you will be learning from
Eng Guan
Eng Guan is an ex-portfolio manager of a systematic hedge fund. He has extensive experience, having spent more than a decade in the asset management and banking industry working through various roles since 2006. These include performing investment due diligence on hedge funds, valuation control on derivatives and structured products, proprietary trading and fund management.
Prior to all these, he started out his first career in the civil service in 2002. But it was also during this time that he developed a keen interest in the financial markets. This prompted him to make a mid-career switch and his decision vastly open up his horizon on the investment landscape. There was so much more beyond just picking stocks, reading analyst reports or financial statements. An engineer by academic background, he always had a strong passion and interest in models and systems. That naturally led him to pursue a systematic or data-driven approach towards investing.
- Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (1 st Class) from NUS with Minor in Business, NUS
- Masters (by research) in Engineering, NUS
- Masters of Science in Financial Engineering, NTU
- Certificate of Computational Finance, (Carnegie Mellon University)
Patrick Ling
Patrick is an ex-portfolio manager of a systematic hedge fund. He has extensive experience, having spent more than a decade in the asset management and banking industry working through various roles since 2005. These include managing private client portfolios, covering hedge fund clients for equity derivatives products and strategy, product control on derivatives and structured products and fund management.
Prior to all these, he started out his first career in the civil service in 2000. After building up his initial savings, he started investing in stocks. From there, he developed a keen interest in financial markets which led him to make a mid-career switch into the finance industry. Gradually, he moved beyond picking stocks to adopt a global macro mind-set covering multiple asset classes. This helped him navigate the 2008 financial crisis successfully. Eventually, he settled on the systematic data-driven approach towards investing.
- Bachelor of Civil Engineering (2nd Upper Class) from NUS
- Masters of Science in Wealth Management, SMU
What You Will Learn In This 2-Day Course
DAY #1 RISK PARITY
Fundamentals and perspectives
Assets selection
Risk calculation of security and portfolio
Portfolio optimisation based on risk parameters
Construct a multi-asset risk parity portfolio
DAY #2 TREND FOLLOWING
Fundamentals and perspectives
key parameters
Stocks selection
Construct a diversified trend following portfolio
Multi-strategy approach
#3 BONUS
(To be revealed during the information session)
