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Quant-oriented companies can provide a solid computational infrastructure and a rich data environment. However, major intellectual impetuses, which have the potential to reshape the investment industry, often come from the academic field. QI wants to support an exchange between these environments by offering two kind of programs that cover thematically all three frontiers of QI’s investment approach.
In the internship program QI Investment offers highly motivated students to get a hands-on experience in quantitative investing. Internships are available on a broad range of topics like data infrastructure, quantitative research, and portfolio management.
In the thesis program QI Investment provides outstanding students the opportunity to base their final thesis on an internal research projects. QI’s projects are positioned at the forefront of quantitative investing and have an impact on existing strategies or even justify new ones.
Build and optimize our data infrastructure. Leverage your expertise in ETL processes, cloud infrastructure, and data warehousing to build scalable data pipelines and lay the foundation for business success.
Find and distill the pattern in the unknown. Work on cutting-edge AI projects and detect non-obvious relationships for financial investing that drive the company’s growth.
Understand crypto from an investor’s point of view. Make use of your knowledge of blockchain technology to navigate the exciting world of cryptocurrency.
Find and distill the pattern in the unknown. Work on cutting-edge AI projects and detect non-obvious relationships for financial investing that drive the company’s growth.
Understand crypto from an investor’s point of view. Make use of your knowledge of blockchain technology to navigate the exciting world of cryptocurrency.
Unleash the potential of alternative data. Walk off the beaten track by analyzing datasets that can tell very different stories and provide an entirely new perspective on how to structure investing.
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We combine new data sources with machine learning techniques to reveal nonlinear relationships and identify new pathways in investing.
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Both temporary and persistent cookies can be used and are explained in this privacy policy.
If a user does not want cookies to be stored on his computer, he should disable the corresponding options in the system settings of his browser. The stored cookies can be deleted in the system settings of the browser. Exclusion of cookies may lead to functional restrictions of this online service.
Collection of access data and log files
The controller of the website or the hosting provider collects data on each access to the server on which this service is located (so-called server log files) on the basis of a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR. Access data includes the name of the retrieved website, file, date and time of retrieval, amount of data transferred, message about successful retrieval, type of browser including version, user’s operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page), IP address and the requesting provider.
For security reasons (e.g. for the investigation of abuse or fraud), log file information is stored for a maximum of seven days. After that, they are deleted. Data whose further retention is necessary for evidence purposes is exempted from deletion until the final clarification of the respective incident.
Type of log files and data collection
Access log files and error log files are stored on the server. These log files contain the user’s IP address and thus personal data. The following data is collected: visited website, time at the time of access, amount of data sent in bytes, source / reference from which the user reached the page, used browser, used operating system and used IP address. A contract processing contract (AVV) is concluded with the hosting provider, which meets the requirements of § 11 BDSG.
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Hosting services taken up by the controller of the website serve to provide the following services: infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space and database services, security services and technical maintenance services used for the operation of this online offer.
In this context, the controller or the hosting provider processes inventory data, contact data, content data, contract data, usage data, meta and communication data of users of this online offer on the basis of a legitimate interest in an efficient and secure provision of the online offer in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR in conjunction with Art. 28 GDPR (conclusion of a contract processing contract).
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The user has the right at any time to obtain free information about stored personal data, their origin and recipients and the purpose of data processing. In addition, there is a right to correction, blocking or deletion of these data. Deletion can only take place if there are no legal or contractual obligations to collect data. If data has been collected on the basis of a legitimate interest, the user has the possibility of objecting to the processing.
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http://www.google.de/settings/ads (“Manage the information Google uses to show you ads”), and
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