Michael Beven
Quantitative Researcher
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Beven is a quantitative researcher based in New York with a decade of experience specializing in equity and index derivatives, volatility, and event-driven strategies across automated and discretionary trading. He has progressed from market-making and signal research roles (VOLANT Trading) to trading and portfolio management of complex options and exotics, then to building automated and semi-systematic options infrastructure before joining Balyasny Asset Management. His background blends advanced financial mathematics (University of Chicago) and actuarial training with hands-on implementation of trading systems and volatility products like VIX, NDX, and RUT. Comfortable both in high-frequency market-making environments and longer-horizon special-situation trades, he brings a pragmatic research-to-execution mindset that tightens model insights into tradable signals. An often-overlooked strength is his actuarial-rooted risk discipline, which informs position sizing and hedging in volatile event-driven contexts.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityExchange Abroad, Exchange Abroad at Seoul National UniversityMaster's degree, Financial Mathematics, Master's degree, Financial Mathematics at University of ChicagoUNSW Sydney
German, KoreanGithub contributions (5)
mbeven/FINM_2016_SPRING
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:41 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
mbeven/Phoenix_Analysis
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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