Philosophy
Combining academic excellence with industry expertise, we drive innovation to achieve long-term growth and consistent outperformance through four key elements.
F for Financial data
Financial data serve as the foundation of our quantitative research. We carefully collect and analyze financial data of all types and dimensions from multiple vendors. With rigorous data cleaning and sophisticated data imputation techniques, we successfully build and maintain a world-class database which currently holds over 3000 factors.
A for Arts
Our Art of quantitative investing derives from our strong industry experience and complements our scientific methodology with market insights. Combining economic and finance insights from our seasoned professionals, our investment models are adaptive to the ever-changing market environments.
S for Science
With our vision to bring genuine science to investment, we invest tremendous resources in research and talent, to explore new dimensions of asset pricing. We lead in the space of non-linear mapping between factors and stock movements applying cutting-edge deep learning algorithms.
T for Technology
Technology is the crucial driver of our performance which leads throughout the whole research process from factor development, model training, multi-model construction to portfolio optimization. With our proprietary trading algorithms and automated execution platform, trades are executed in a rapid and cost-effective manner.
About
Super Quantum is a quantitative asset management firm founded in 2019 by Professor Michael Zhang. With a vision to bring ‘genuine’ science to investing in the opportunistic China-A share market, we combine state-of-the-art research on deep learning, mathematics, econometrics and statistics, with our solid experience in the finance industry to design quantitative strategies that consistently outperform the market. Our mission is to deliver superior and risk-controlled alpha to our valuable customers and build long-term relationships based on trust. Since 2019, we have grown significantly to a team of 30+ investment and research professionals with a presence in Shenzhen, Beijing, and Hong Kong.
Milestones
2019
April
Super Quantum was founded and our headquarters built in Shenzhen.
2020
June
We registered at AMAC as a private fund manager.
2021
February
We established a new research hub in Beijing.
2021
April
We Liquidated the first customized account (managed account) with an annualized return of 41.48%.
2021
December
We surpassed US$ 50 million in Asset Under Management.
2022
December
Super Quantum Hong Kong received Type 9 (asset management) license from SFC; Total AUM reached 700 million RMB.
2024
April
Total AUM passed 2 billion RMB.
Team Members
Professor Michael Zhang, Ph.D.
FOUNDER
Professor Zhang has over ten years’ experience in quantitative analysis and investment management. He is a Chair Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Co-director of Hong Kong–Shenzhen Finance Research Centre.
Prof. Zhang holds a PhD from MIT Sloan School of Management, an MSc in Management, a BE in Computer Science and a BA in English from Tsinghua University.
He is a member of Chicago Quant Alliance (CQA) and has publications in the most prestigious journals such as American Economic Review, Management Science, Marketing Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, etc. He is a world-renowned researcher of FinTech and Digitization.
Contact
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