Dr Thomas Starke – Quantitative Trader and Founder of AAAQuants
Systematic trading researcher specialising in portfolio construction and diversified quantitative strategies.
Dr Thomas Starke is a quantitative trader and portfolio manager with over 15 years of experience in systematic trading and quantitative research. His work focuses on the development of highly diversified portfolios built from multiple uncorrelated systematic trading strategies.
He is the founder of AAAQuants, a consultancy specialising in quantitative trading research, strategy development, and education. Through AAAQuants, Dr Starke has collaborated with hedge funds and proprietary trading firms on numerous systematic trading and portfolio construction projects.
Dr Starke has had a remarkable career spanning work at the proprietary trading firm Vivienne Court, leading strategic research projects for Rolls-Royce, co-founding a microchip design company and he currently trades for a leading quantitative trading firm in Sydney.
He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Nottingham (UK) and has held academic positions as a senior research fellow and lecturer at Oxford University. Dr Starke has a strong interest in emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and quantitative computing methods. Alongside his professional trading work, he regularly teaches quantitative trading and enjoys sharing practical systematic trading approaches with students and researchers.
