FinanceHub

Background

There has been an explosion of interest in systematic strategies. Varying in complexity, quantitative ideas are now mainstream and part of any large institutional portfolio.

Top investment firms in the world have moved away from the “secret-sauce” mindset and now co-author research with academics, dedicate resources to education, create new technologies, construct publicly available data sets, and run labs in markets, data science, and technology. They are even bringing open source technology to investing itself. The Brazilian asset management industry is late in this process with very few teams fully dedicated to a systematic approach to investing.

Brazilian portfolios are becoming more international, multi-dimensional and complex. Systematization is a transparent and efficient way of institutional investors to deal with complexity and lack familiarity with certain markets. Our professionals need to be trained in the sciences and technologies of this new approach. We need to start building a more symbiotic relationship with academia. The FinanceHub is an attempt to create a community of investment professionals and academics in Brazil capable of doing just that, fostering the research and technology that will help the Brazilian asset management industry cope with its new challenges.

What We Do

• GitHub Repository: We built a GitHub Repository with codes to support research in finance. Some code helps easily access raw and treated data stored in our servers. Some code implements models used on the analysis of that data.
• Lectures: We have lectures on Python programming for finance and financial theory. All of the material is available in our repository.
• Seminars: We actively discuss and promote research in finance. Among our activities, we organize regular academic seminars on a wide range of finance topics.