Invesco Vet Talks Quants,130/30

August 4, 2008

In the wake of the credit crisis and the collapse of equity markets that began about a year ago, it hasn't been a great time to be a 'quant.' After all, those fine proprietary computer models are supposed to spot these things, but many failed miserably, and now many managers in the space are keeping their heads down. But not Russ Kamp, CEO of Invesco Quantitative Strategies (IQS), an institutional investing division of Invesco. 'We're really kind of a hybrid in the industry,' he said. 'We take a quantitative approach to investing, but we have had a fundamental underpinning for every stock in our portfolio now for 25 years.'

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