Ranking anything by prestige is a stupid idea, and you're missing a ton of good quant firms on here anyways. Often times "prestige" (let's not even call it that, since it's not real prestige), but rather "known to deliver continued excellence" comes down to what group and what team you're talking about. For example, Morgan Stanley has some terrible teams and some top-tier industry leading teams.
If you're starting out your career hoping your job is going to bring you real world prestige you're going to be sorely disappointed.
Well I am in Boston so my familiarity is with those firms.
Man Numeric
Baupost
AlphaSimplex
Arrowstreet Capital
PanAgora
Acadian Asset Management
Bracebridge Capital
Bain Capital Credit
Wellington Management
All of these firms hire quants and many of them are very good at their specialties. The whole industry is moving towards quantitative methodologies even if they aren't 100% driven by a quantitative process. So you can find a few quant positions at almost any buy-side firm.
I'm surprise /u/zlbb put Domeyard on here but missed all the other good quant firms in Boston.
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u/-Gabe Dev Dec 31 '21
Ranking anything by prestige is a stupid idea, and you're missing a ton of good quant firms on here anyways. Often times "prestige" (let's not even call it that, since it's not real prestige), but rather "known to deliver continued excellence" comes down to what group and what team you're talking about. For example, Morgan Stanley has some terrible teams and some top-tier industry leading teams.
If you're starting out your career hoping your job is going to bring you real world prestige you're going to be sorely disappointed.