Marco Neffelli is an Investment Manager and quant analyst with eight years of experience combining PhD-level financial econometrics with hands-on portfolio management and tactical asset allocation at Legal & General. He specializes in portfolio optimisation, covariance-matrix research and translating rigorous statistical methods into production-ready models that improve decision-making and risk control. Marco has a track record of automating and streamlining investment processes—building Python, VBA and SQL systems that cut costs and save hours of manual work while improving data reliability for long-income and lifetime-mortgage strategies. He has bridged academia and industry as a lecturer, author of a quantitative finance course, and a practitioner who shapes investment outcomes through bespoke modelling and tooling. Based in London, he brings a pragmatic, research-driven approach to complex multi-asset problems and a knack for turning methodological insights into measurable portfolio improvements.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Quantitative Finance, Master of Science (MSc) Quantitative Finance at Bayes Business School
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Economics (Financial Econometrics), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Economics (Financial Econometrics) at University of Genoa
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