Ainslie Yuen’s desire to adapt and learn has ensured that she’s been on the front line of the market’s major episodes.
If Dr Ainslie Yuen has a quest, it’s to always do interesting, complex and different stuff.
Her PhD thesis involved using “interesting tools” to look at financial data – applying fractal analysis to analyse intraday price moves of US equities.The bank, she said tended to collect PhDs from a variety of disciplines, and so it seemed like a natural fit.Yuen landed up on the multi-asset prop desk at the US bank. She applied her quantitative skills to build tools and analyse the unusual mix of assets that the bank bought: from planes to satellites to credit card portfolios.
“It was nice to have my products in shops in the United States,” she says before adding that “sales is really, really hard”.But at some point, she decided it was “time to get real” so she explored jobs in finance, and she rediscovered her passion for quantitative analysis, which was fashionable again.
The apparent network effect means the value ascribed to them is more asymmetric, and so they can go up fast, but down fast too.“I wouldn’t call it pure technical. Some of it is behavioural – observations of what people are doing,” she says.Crypto is also a new frontier for data analysis with limited data sets from a variety of sources.
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