Slang

quant

This page is about the slang term quant

Meaning

a quantitative analyst; a person who performs quantitative analysis

For example

  • Sam has been working as a quant for an insurance company for seven years.

  • The quants who work on Wall Street seem to have got their sums very wrong.

Origin: short for "quantitative analyst"

Quick Quiz

If you want to be a quant, you'll need to be good at

a. sports

b. mathematics

c. drawing
a) sports b) mathematics c) drawing

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Contributor: Matt Errey