James McWhinney is a long-tenured Investopedia contributor and an expert on personal finance and investing. With over 25 years of experience as a full-time communications professional, James writes ...

What are the differences between gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information? Better yet, how can you develop these skills and use this knowledge in a real-world job? Quantitative ...

Institutional investors face complex decisions—where to allocate capital, which managers to trust, how to weather volatility. These choices can’t rely on instinct alone. They require data, structure, ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Quantitative analysis is a number and data-driven approach to investing that uses mathematical models and algorithms to analyze a company’s financial information to inform investment decisions. It’s ...

Investors have come to rely on Morningstar's forward-looking Analyst Ratings as crucial inputs for screening investments and making buy and sell decisions. The Morningstar Quantitative Rating for ...

When you make business decisions as a manager, you take into account qualitative factors like reputations, brand strength and employee morale, as well as quantifiable data such as sales figures, ...

Fixed income is a naturally quantitative asset class: the investor claims a predetermined, and thus quantifiable, stream of cash flows. This implies that greater accessibility of data and processing ...

Data analyses usually make assumptions (which may be explicit or, more commonly, implicit): for example, “no unmeasured confounding”. When assumptions are untestable their potential importance can ...

On September 13, 2012, the Fed announced a further program of quantitative easing, or QE. The program, which we will all call by its unofficial name, QE3, will consist of purchases of some $40 billion ...