Meanings
- A notional place representing the domain of quants (quantitative analysts) and their work.
Their research helps to explain why managers in this corner of quantland are full of existential doubts.
2020 February 6, Justina Lee, “Pioneers of Value Investing Are Trying to See If It's Dead”, in Bloomberg, New York, N.Y.: Bloomberg L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Nov 20202 more examples
If anything, by departing from quantland we would at the very least prevent convoluted constructs from being used as intimidating alibis to justify stamping a "AAA" on a bundle of poisonous, mayhem-prone, NINJA loans.
2009, Pablo Triana, Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets?, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 119One of the biggest problems in quantland is that you only have one dataset to work with — ie what has actually happened in markets. While in the actual legit sciences, you can run multiple experiments to generate a host of data.
2023 October 2, Robin Wigglesworth, “Hallucinating machines”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2023Synonyms: quantdom
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA notional place representing the domain of quants (quantitative analysts) and their work.
Origin
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