A quantitative approach to investing helps investors avoid common behavioral pitfalls such as emotional decision-making.

“So is part of the idea of being a quant that you can sort of take a dispassionate look at what's going on and and make your decisions based on the data so you're not swept up in say AI related mania. Is that a key crux of the thesis? >> Yeah, absolutely.”

Quantitative investing provides confidence in investment decisions because back-testing rules over long time horizons demonstrates how they would have performed.

“And the reason that you can get confidence in that is because you can do something that you can't do in the more traditional style of investment. What you can do is a back test where you take that rule and you test how it would have performed over a much longer time horizon.”