MIT Laboratory / Tykhe Capital LLC / Countrywide Financial / Wall Street Journal / Harris & Harris Group / AlphaSimplex Group LLC / Credit Suisse / Bear Stearns / AMEX / Highbridge Capital Management / Sowood Capital Management / Renaissance Technologies Corp. / Goldman Sachs / /
Country
United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
M&A / /
Facility
Memorial Drive / MIT Laboratory / /
IndustryTerm
home lender / portfolio-construction tools / trading infrastructure / retail order flow / stock-screening software / /
MarketIndex
S&P 500 / /
Organization
Highbridge Statistical Market Neutral Fund / School of Management / Goldman Sachs Global Equity Opportunities Fund / Highbridge Statistical Opportunities Fund / Laboratory for Financial Engineering / Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science / MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering / /
Person
Jasmina Hasanhodzic / Pankaj Patel / Nicholas Chan / Jacob Goldfield / David Shaw / Jonathan Spring / James Martielli / Shane Haas / Mike Hogan / Phil Vasan / Bob Litterman / Jerry Chafkin / Andrew W. Lo / Amir E. Khandani / Tony Plate / Joe Haubrich / Dave DeMers / /
Position
Chief Financial Officer / Chief Scientific Officer / driver / Professor / director / /
What Happened To The Quants In August 2007?∗ Amir E. Khandani† and Andrew W. Lo‡ First Draft: September 20, 2007 Latest Revision: September 20, 2007 Abstract