Barry Ritholtz, Columnist

WorldQuant's Chropuvka Seeks to Motivate Quants

The hedge fund president likes to run competitive challenges and offer incentives to employees.

March 29, 2021 at 6:00 PM UTC

Barry Ritholtz is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and was previously chief market strategist at Maxim Group. He is the author of “Bailout Nation.”

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What is the best way to motivate the financial engineers and “quants” that permeate Wall Street? For Gary Chropuvka, the president of hedge fund WorldQuant, the solution is to run competitive challenges and offer incentives to those who develop innovations that help returns exceed benchmarks. Chropuvka, who is this week’s guest on the Masters in Business podcast, is in charge of business strategy at the firm, helps manage operations and participates in the firm's investment strategies.

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