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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 ...

Quantitative analysis is a branch of financial analysis that focuses on using data and mathematical techniques to inform investment decisions. Harry Markowitz pioneered modern quantitative analysis ...

Quantitative methods and the courses in which they are taught often present as if they are neutral, value-free and unbiased. However, the history of quantitative methods demonstrates an entanglement ...

A research team led by Academician Zhu Jiaojun from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has introduced a new quantitative method to classify shade tolerance ...