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Credit Suisse Builds Asia Quant Team

The expanded quantitative investment expertise feeds into the products and services which the bank gives to hedge funds and private banking clients.
Credit Suisse has set up a new team, called Asia-Pacific
Quantitative and Systematic Strategy, to expand its research
advisory suite.
The team members will combine their expertise and data from HOLT,
Credit Suisse’s proprietary analytical platform, to generate
investment ideas with structured product applicability, enabling
the bank to cater for hedge fund and private banking clients more
effectively, Credit Suisse said
earlier this week.
Will Stephens, who has been appointed head of quantitative and
systematic strategy, Asia-Pacific, brings 20 years’ experience in
both the buy and sell-side as a research professional. He
specialises in building thematic, macro equity, relative value,
quantitative, capital structure and implementation strategies, as
well as in developing actionable, data-driven trading strategies,
complementing fundamental views with quantitative inputs.
Prior to this, Stephens was at Deutsche Bank, where he was head
of “delta one strategy” and head of regional equity strategy. He
is joined by two former colleagues, Elita Lai and Dave Yin, who
have assumed the roles of equity quantitative strategist, and
quantitative analyst respectively. All three will be based in
Hong Kong.
Credit Suisse’s HOLT platform offers institutional investors
insights into more than 20,000 companies across 70 countries
globally.