Moritz Heiden
Moritz Heiden is Co-Founder and Head of Quantitative Research at Takahē Capital, a quantitative investment manager focused on resilient, systematic trading strategies. He is also a Special Advisor of Technology & Quantitative Development at Exponential Age Asset Management and Co-Founder of Two Quants, a publisher of quant-minded and independent research reports. Heiden has extensive experience in the field of quantitative research and asset management. Previously, he was Head of Quantitative Research at Munich Re, one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, primary insurance, and insurance-related risk solutions. He is credited for developing the Real Vision Bot, a research project and automated AI technology to analyze and learn from interviews of professional investors on Real Vision.
Moritz Heiden Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Co-Founder and Head of Quantitative Research
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Special Advisor of Technology & Quantitative Development
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Head of Digital Innovation
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Head of Quantitative Research
Academic History
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PhD in Statistics and Econometrics, Summa Cum Laude
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Co-Founder and Head of Quantitative Research, Takahē Capital
Special Advisor of Technology & Quantitative Development, Exponential Age Asset Management
Co-Founder, Two Quants
Head of Digital Innovation, Real Vision
Lecturer, University of Augsburg
Advisor, JustCarbon
EARLY CAREER
Heiden had his first glimpse at the investment world at the start of the global financial crisis.
He published several papers on machine learning and volatility modeling and completed his thesis on “asymmetry and nonlinearity in forecasting multivariate stock market volatility.”
He started his financial career at Union Investment, where he built systematic trading and investment strategies based on the concept of behavioral finance and statistical arbitrage.
He joined Scalable Capital to spend more time coding and implementing asset allocation strategies and trading algorithms for ETF-based retail portfolios.