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 Quantitative Investment Research Systems group at Kidder, Peabody & Co.(now UBS), which developed and marketed global quantitative equity, fixed income, derivative and macro economic 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.
Hugh is currently with Thomson Reuters, integrating news analytics (machine readable news, sentiment) and quantitative investment processes. hugh.crowther@thomsonreuters.com
His professional and academic affiliations include:
Steerage Committee Member and Treasurer: Quantitative Work Alliance for Applied Finance, Education & Wisdom QWAFAFEW
Founder: Investment Technology Education Sub-Committee; Member: Quantitative Program Committee, Boston Security Analysts Society BSAS (Boston CFA Institute)
Member: CFA Institute CFA I, Boston Market Technicians Association MTA, Professional Risk Managers' International Association PRMIA, and Global Association of Risk Professionals GARP, R Users Group.
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.
