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QuantArea Selects Bloomberg’s BQuant Enterprise Platform to Enhance Investment Strategy Development

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QuantArea, a Swiss “Quant as a Service” firm, has chosen Bloomberg’s BQuant Enterprise Platform to enhance its research and development of systematic, rule-based, and bespoke investment strategies. The partnership aims to leverage QuantArea’s extensive expertise in creating tailored equity investment solutions for institutional clients such as banks, insurance companies, and pension funds.

Using BQuant Enterprise, QuantArea will access a wider array of data and expedite the development of new model portfolios, allowing clients to launch distinctive investment products more efficiently. The platform’s capabilities include security selection, filtering, optimisation, backtesting, and simulation, which streamline product development and lifecycle management. BQuant Enterprise, a cloud-based analytics platform, offers comprehensive financial datasets and a flexible Python environment for sophisticated quant model development.

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