At Schwarz Quant Asset Management, we don’t take the models as given. Conventional economic models are useful, but we suspect they only capture part of the picture. The rest, we believe, has a structure of its own: a hidden one that shapes how the next economy will work.
So we map it. We question the assumptions, build models that can handle the complexity, and test everything against the evidence. We’re a young firm and we’re building carefully.
We are building a quantitative investment firm for changing markets. Our aim is long-term, risk-conscious investing, with research behind every decision and honesty about the risks.
The future is not simply about inventing better technology. It is about identifying the technologies capable of changing economics — and allocating capital accordingly
Research is where we begin. Capital allocation is where it matters. Returns are what ultimately count for investors.
What We Do
At Schwarz Quant, an early-stage firm, we research markets, businesses and economic developments to understand where capital can create value. We study the economy and ask what the usual models leave out. That means looking at technology, energy, demographics and risk, and working out which changes are real and which are just noise.
Private Equity
Much of the economy changes outside public markets: businesses change hands, new technologies find capital, and industries evolve. We study what makes private companies valuable, what drives their returns, and where risks hide behind valuations, debt and exit assumptions.
Credit and Insurance
Credit prices the economy’s borrowing, and insurers are among Europe’s largest long-term investors. We study how credit risk is measured, and how long-term obligations shape what insurers can safely hold.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure is built for decades and funded by long-term capital. We study how it creates value, what drives its returns, and where the risks hide. It’s one of the areas our research has marked out as most worth pursuing.
Insights
We start with the data and test everything we can. Where the data stops, we say so, and we say what we’re assuming instead. Here is our thinking on markets, the economy, risk, the evidence, the method, how confident we are, and what would prove us wrong. If you think we’ve got something wrong, we’d like to hear it.
The content on our Insights page is for information and discussion only. It is not investment advice, a recommendation or an offer, and it does not take your personal circumstances into account. Schwarz Quant is not currently authorised by BaFin or any other financial regulator, and does not provide investment services.
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