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QMIT's Book - The Quantamental Revolution
Michael Lewis meets Fama French - unique blend of anecdotal perspective on 30Y of quant history combined with academic rigor
In The Quantamental Revolution: Factor Investing in the Age of Machine Learning, veteran quantitative investor and strategist, Milind Sharma, delivers a comprehensive discussion of factor investing, risk premia, smart betas, multi-factor models and the deployment of ML ensembles towards monetizing alpha in the hedge fund world. Sharma draws on 30 years of industry and academic experience to bring us up to date on the cutting edge of quantitative factor investing.
You’ll learn about the basics of Fama-French and obtain a practical blueprint for taming the factor zoo. This book provides a comprehensive factor investing framework designed to improve your investment process informed by an insightful industry perspective and backed up by 1st hand eye witness stories as narrated by the author.
The Quantamental Revolution also includes:
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A mature and sweeping perspective, simultaneously incorporating industry (insider) insights and academic rigor, not provided by any other reference
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Novel research backed by live performance leveraging a huge factor library
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A practical reinvention of buy-side equities using a spanning set of factors and ML enhanced smart betas
Perfect for early-career quantitative investors and analysts, traders, and market data professionals, The Quantamental Revolution is also an essential read for portfolio managers interested in improving their investment processes. The engaging anecdotal vignettes coupled with academic rigor provide the reader with an authentic front row seat to the evolution of Quantamental investing on Wall Street over the past three decades.
Preview – Table of Contents
About the author

Milind Sharma’s 30 years of market experience span running proprietary trading desks at Deutsche Bank (Saba entity) & RBC (GAT entity) as well as hedge funds (QuantZ) & mutual funds (MLIM). His funds have won many awards over the years including those from Morningstar, Lipper, WSJ etc. He was a founding member of Quant Strategies at Merrill Lynch on the buyside (now BlackRock) and Manager of the Risk Analytics and Research Group at Ernst & Young. His QuantZ/ QMIT launch has been a pioneer in applying ML to factor investing. QuantZ is the world’s 1st fully synthetic hedge fund accessible via bank QIS swaps.
His publications have appeared in the Journal of Investment Management, Risk, Wiley, Elsevier, World Scientific etc with a new Wiley Finance book forthcoming. His educational background includes Oxford, Vassar, Carnegie Mellon & Wharton. He has guest-lectured and/ or directed Capstone courses at Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, UCLA, UCSD etc.
He is founder & President of New York’s premier quant society QWAFAxNEW.
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Where to order
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Books-a-Million: The Quantamental Revolution by Milind Sharma
CEO, QuantZ/ QMIT, 85 Broad St., 18th Floor, New York, NY, 10004
QMIT’s QIS strats - EMN HFs: https://www.vettafi.com/indexing/index/qumn
Quant society: https://qwafaxnew.org/gallery/