How the Future will be (Under)Written

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This post is for insurance and reinsurance underwriters (traders) and their C-Suite bosses who are open to and interested in finding new ways to make a lot of money.

I traded discretionary (qualitative-”I like (buy) NVDA, I don’t like (short) INTC”) and quantitative (don’t touch the model! algorithmic) strategies at banks and hedge funds from 1999-2016.

I was there when the trading floor went from writing paper tickets to paperless. I was there when trading went from a “you can’t trade lower than” 1/16 increments (a teeny in trading parlance), to completely digital, out-to-infinity decimal points.

Possibly most importantly for this context, I saw quantitative trading take its place alongside qualitative trading at shops that wanted a way to help add ostensibly uncorrelated returns.

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