Rick Barrett

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Location Norwalk, CT, United States
Introduction I am the Director of US Quant Sales for FactSet Research Systems. I joined FactSet in 1998 after working for two years at State Street Research in Boston. For the past ten years, my focus has been on quantitative and risk analytics, where I have worked with our clients in the areas of factor modeling, portfolio backtesting, optimization, risk analysis, and stress testing. FactSet partners with firms such as Northfield, Barra, APT, R-Squared, and Axioma to provide the best and most widely used risk models and optimizers in the industry on our integrated platform. I received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and did my graduate work at NYU where I received an MBA with a double major in Finance and Statistics. I hold the CFA and FRM designations.