Principal
Renato Guerrieri
Renato Guerrieri is Head of Quantitative Strategy, Liquid Alternatives, at Downing LLP. He works across quantitative research, systematic strategy development and front-office investment infrastructure, with a focus on designing, validating and implementing investment processes across equities, cross-asset portfolios and derivatives mandates.
His work spans signal research, portfolio construction, allocation design, derivatives scenario engines, stress-test implementation and institutional research workflows for live investment mandates. He focuses on the full path from research thesis to portfolio implementation: signal durability, capacity, transaction costs, regime sensitivity, sizing, risk constraints and implementation discipline.
He has developed systematic strategies and quantitative infrastructure across live fund environments, including systematic equity allocation, cross-asset portfolio construction, derivatives mandate stress testing and diversifying return-stream research.
His perspective is practitioner-led: how systematic strategies are researched, sized, implemented, monitored and maintained inside institutional portfolios.
Public speaking & commentary
Selected public activity
| Venue | Activity | Format / date |
|---|---|---|
| Future Alpha Global | Beyond the Buzz: How AI Actually Helps Investment Teams Make Decisions | Published commentary, April 2026 |
| Future Alpha 2027 | Advisory board member | Advisory board |
| Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference, London | Advisory board member | Advisory board |
| Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference, London | Leaders Panel: Alternative Data in Production, from Models to Markets | Panel, 19 May 2026 |
| TradingTech Insight / A-Team Group | Navigating the Build vs Buy Dilemma: Cloud Strategies for Accelerating Quantitative Research | Webinar, 20 May 2026 |
| A-Team Group | The Data Foundation for Alpha: How Fragmented Data Is Eroding Hedge Fund Performance | Webinar, 23 June 2026 |
| Neudata London Traditional and Market Data Summit | The Great Blur: When Traditional Data Becomes Alternative and Vice Versa | Panel, 2 July 2026 |
| BattleFin Discovery Day London | Front-office data, alpha sourcing, practical investment workflows, and AI applications | Speaker, 1 October 2026 |