SigTech enabled us to backtest and deploy new systematic trading strategies in record time. Now, our fund has cutting-edge in-house quant capabilities enabling the team to create maximum value for clients, without paying third-party fees.
Senior Systematic Macro Trader
Case Study
Background
- New regulatory changes incentivize AUS superannuation funds to bring previously outsourced, high-fee investments, in-house.
- As one of the largest superannuation funds in AUS, the team decided to bring systematic capabilities in-house and invest directly.
- The fund was looking to test new trading ideas as fast as possible, to enable a senior analyst responsible for systematic macro strategies, who had been hired recently.
- The seasoned quant team had previous experience of building an in-house research platform and knew that it would take years to build. Therefore decided to take advantage of an existing SaaS platform, such as SigTech.
Implementation
- SigTech provided the quant team with all necessary data, research tools and best-in-class backtesting engine – instantly accessible via the cloud.
- Over 100+ pre-built and customizable strategies allowed the team to quickly backtest their new trading ideas.
- Access to clean and validated data, readily available, including intraday minute bar prices for FX and futures, as well as options.
- Built-in production environment for instant strategy deployment and live trading.
Results
- Within two months the entire quant team was fully up and running, testing and deploying new trading strategies.
- Thanks to the available source code of existing strategies within the SigTech platform, the team was quickly able to extend the backtesting of highly sophisticated strategies.
- As a cloud-hosted service, SigTech was fit for purpose from day one, without the need for time consuming in-house development.
- The SigTech production environment allows for strategy deployment before it goes into actual live trading to monitor performance and potential slippage.
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