Dear All,

We are delighted to announce the new Brooklyn Quant Experience (BQE) Lecture Series (formerly known as the FRE Lecture Series), which will begin Thursday, January 30th at 6PM in the Event MakerSpace, 6 Metrotech Center, 1st Floor.

To kickoff our first lecture this spring, we have invited Dr. Milind Sharma who will present a talk on the following topic:

Title:

From Smart Betas to Smart Alphas

Bio:

Milind Sharma’s 24 years of market experience span running prop desks at RBC & Deutsche Bank (Saba unit) as well as hedge funds (QuantZ) & mutual funds (MLIM) not to mention his fintech venture QMIT. His funds have won many awards over the years including those from Morningstar, Lipper, WSJ, Battle of the Quants & BattleFin. He was also a co-founder of Quant Strategies at MLIM (now BlackRock) & Manager of the Risk Analytics and Research Group at Ernst & Young where he was co-architect of Raven TM. His publications have appeared in Risk, JoIM, Elsevier, World Scientific, Wiley etc. In addition to dual MS degrees he was also in the Logic/ AI PhD program at Carnegie Mellon. Other education includes Oxford, Vassar & Wharton.

We look forward to having you join us for the talk and refreshments.