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Arik  Ben Dor

Arik Ben Dor

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Arik Ben Dor is the Managing Director and Head of Quantitative Equity Research at Barclays. Over the past two decades, he oversaw large scale research projects in equities, rates, credit, and hedge funds used by the largest institutional investors globally. At Barclays, he leads a team focusing on cross-asset class research leveraging information and signals from corporate bonds, equity options and CDS markets as well as applications of alternative data and machine learning techniques in the construction of systematic equity strategies and thematic research. His research focuses on asset allocation, smart beta, alpha generation, portfolio optimization, risk management, and hedging. Prior to Barclays, Dr. Ben Dor worked at Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley.

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  • He co-authored three books on quantitative investing in credit securities and over a dozen articles in leading industry journals.

  • One of his articles received the Martello award for the 2007 best practitioner paper.

  • His research on ‘cloning’ hedge funds was the basis for several products and was awarded a U.S. patent.