Dr Photios Harmantzis Hedge Fund Manager
QuantVision 2026: Fordham’s Quantitative Conference
Photios (Fotios) Harmantzis, Ph.D., developed a passion for investing, mathematics, computer science, and geopolitics while growing up in Greece. After completing interdisciplinary graduate studies in the US and Canada and a brief tenure in academia, he transitioned to quantitative hedge funds in the early 2000s, where he has spent nearly two decades in quantitative trading and portfolio management. Throughout his career, Dr. Harmantzis has demonstrated exceptional ability in researching, developing, and trading systematic strategies across Macro and Global Equities. He has been allocated capital by multi-billion dollar hedge funds including WorldQuant, where he served as a Macro Asset Class Expert PM, and FX Concepts, one of the oldest and largest currency managers globally. He has also held senior trading positions at major Wall Street proprietary desks, including Bank of America’s FICC desk and Credit Suisse’s Equity market-making desk. A finance empiricist by nature, Dr. Harmantzis employs a disciplined investment approach that applies data science to financial research, utilizing a wide range of well-tested scientific methods and diverse data sources. He emphasizes robust backtesting to avoid overfitting while focusing on prediction, portfolio construction, risk management and execution. His expertise spans equities and ETFs, futures and currencies, rates, commodities, and cryptos across various time horizons, with a focus on scalable, high-capacity strategies. Dr. Harmantzis has managed global teams of quantitative researchers responsible for multiple hedge fund strategies. Beyond his US experience, he has worked internationally in Canada, Greece, Israel, and Austria. He has published numerous peer-reviewed research papers and has been an invited speaker at industry conferences. Outside of financial markets, Dr. Harmantzis maintains interests in venture capital, real estate, and art. He resides in Greenwich, Connecticut with his wife and two children.
QuantVision 2026: Fordham’s Quantitative Conference
