Long/short strategy Quent opens to outside capital

Gregg S. Fisher, a quantitative investment veteran, announced the formal launch of Quent Capital last week with a focus on a global small cap long/short strategy. This is the second investment firm founded by Fisher, who is known for multi-factor investment strategies developed at Gerstein Fisher beginning in 1993. In 2016, with more than $4 billion in assets under management and advisement, Fisher sold Gerstein Fisher to People’s United Bank. He founded his latest firm in 2018, according to U.S. SEC documents. “Quantitative investing and entrepreneurship are my passions in life and form the basis of this new venture and the word ‘Quent’,” said Fisher in a statement. “With small, entrepreneurial companies now able to source top talent from around the world and acquire institutional-grade technology at low cost, dynamic firms with disruptive technologies and services will be able to meet the challenges of the turbulence and dislocations in today’s economy and forge ahead.” Quent’s new investment approach applies academic research and quantitative analysis with the energy and intuition of successful entrepreneurs to systematically measure some of the hidden and intangible characteristics that make entrepreneurs successful. The firm had $56 million in AUM as of March. According to a firm press release the strategy was originally run out of the Fisher family office and a significant portion of Fisher’s liquid assets are invested in the fund. Fisher commented that Quent’s analysis is to systematically measure characteristics such as R&D, brand and human capital that allow small companies to succeed but generally have been ignored by traditional accounting measures and the public markets.

Long/short strategy Quent opens to outside capital

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