About Crowther Investment LLC The principal of the firm, Hugh Lagan Crowther, has over 25 years experience with investment processes, technology and marketing. He has worked on the buy, sell, vendor and academic sides of the investment business.  He began his investment career in 1982 at Value Line, where he managed and marketed the Institutional Quantitative Equity Research business. From 1987 to 1995 he built and led the Analytical Software and Data Services group at Kidder, Peabody & Co.(now UBS), which developed and marketed global quantitative equity, fixed income, and derivative research, management, and trading products and tools.  From 1995 to 2001 he developed and managed international portfolio analytics, equity, fixed income, and derivative research, risk management, global benchmarks, and market data systems for Fidelity Management & Research. Since 2001, he has been directing quantitative research, building and managing portfolio analytics and models; creating training and education; evaluating, acquiring, integrating and managing research and investment technology for asset management, hedge fund, broker / dealer, financial engineering, portfolio manufacturing, tax efficient structured equity, custody, and vendor consulting clients. His professional and academic affiliations include: Executive-In-Residence, Babson College Steerage Committee Member and Treasurer, Quantitative Work Alliance for Applied Finance, Education & Wisdom QWAFAFEW Founder, Investment Technology Education Sub-Committee; Member, Quantitative and Academic Program Committees, Boston Security Analysts Society BSAS  (Boston CFA Institute) Past President and director, Society of Quantitative Analysts SQA Former Adjunct Professor, Brandeis University | International Business School Member: CFA Institute CFA I, Boston Market Technicians Association MTA, Professional Risk Managers' International Association PRMIA, and Global Association of Risk Professionals GARP. Hugh holds a BSBA (Finance / Spanish) from the University of Denver, an MS (Management Engineering) and an MBA (International Business) from the University of Bridgeport.  He is a citizen of the United States and the European Union. Investment Research, Tools & Products Experience Advent, BARRA, Bloomberg, Bridge, C/C++, Citigroup (Salomon Bros) Yield Book, ClariFI ModelStation (Capital IQ), Columbia / Bank of America, Corporate New Issues, Counterparty, CRSP, Customer & Involved Party, DAIS, Datastream, Disclosure, Dow Jones, DTCC, EJV, Equity Research, Eagle PACE, Excel, Extel, FactSet, FAME (SunGard Data Solutions), Features & Services, FIBV, Fidelity Investments / FMR,Financial Asset & Event, Financial Times Actuaries, FTSE, FT Interactive Data (IDC), First Call, Gerson Lehrman Group, GLOBAL INSIGHT (DRI-WEFA, Data Resources/Wharton Econometrics),  Goldman Sachs, Google AdWords, HOLT CSFB, I/B/E/S (IBES), IDD/Tradeline, IFC, ISID+, ITG, JPMorgan, Lehman Bros., Lipper, M&A, Market QA / Quantitative Analytics, Macro-economic, MATLAB, MetaStock, Micrognosis-MIPS, Micropal, Merrill Lynch, Morningstar, MSCI, Muller, Northfield, Oracle, PACE, Portfolio Manufacturing, Portfolio Management, PRISM, Putnam, R, Reuters,  Reuters Marketfeed 2000, Reuters Triarch-SSL, Russell, Standard & Poor's Compustat(Capital IQ),S&P/MSCI GICS, S&P Global Vantage, S&P Indices, S&P Credit Ratings, S&P Research Insight(Capital IQ), S&P Compustat Xpressfeed(Capital IQ), Salomon Brothers Stockfacts, Salomon Bros. Yield Book, SAS, Security Master (Products / Security Reference / Financial Instrument), State Street, SQL, Tax Efficient Structured Equity, Telekurs, Thomson Reuters TQA, Tradeline International, Trading, Value Line, Vestek, Vickers, Vision (FactSet), Worldscope, WorldVest, Zacks Investment Process   Equity Research   Portfolio Construction   Equity Trading   Post-trade   Process Improvement Hugh Lagan Crowther (781) 640-3354 hugh@crowther-investment.com Global Quantitative Investment: Process, Technology, Marketing Financial Engineering Consulting - Boston © Copyright 2002-2010