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Zachary Marx, CFA, is the Director of Quantitative Strategies at Seeking Alpha. Zach has over a decade of experience consulting with North American institutional buy-side investment managers on data, investment strategy, and quantitative modeling. He has been a critical force behind transforming Seeking Alpha’s stock ratings, dividend ratings, ETF ratings, and analytical tools to deliver industry-leading performances.Zach has implemented production-ready quantitative factor strategies for client mandates that are responsible for running billions of dollars in AUM. He brings expertise in data processing, data visualization, financial modeling, risk modeling, transaction cost modeling, backtesting, portfolio optimization, and portfolio attribution and analysis.Zach helps run Alpha Picks, Seeking Alpha’s very own Investing Group designed to create a best-in-class portfolio for long-term investors.
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