Rinald Murataj

Dr. Rinald Murataj is a quantitative equity investment professional and Senior Vice President at T. Rowe Price, where he has worked since 2018 (Quantitative Analyst, then Vice President, then SVP). He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics and Finance from Cornell University (2012-2018) and a BSc in Mathematics from Jacobs University Bremen. His research covers asset pricing, financial econometrics and financial machine learning, and he has published on the low-volatility anomaly with Robert A. Jarrow and Martin T. Wells. As a student he represented Albania at the 2007 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning an Honorable Mention.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Rinald Murataj held an actual quantitative role at T. Rowe Price - Quantitative Analyst (2018-2020), then Vice President (2021-2023), then Senior Vice President (2023-present) - per his LinkedIn profile, which also cross-links to his Cornell PhD page. T. Rowe Price is a major asset manager (company domain troweprice.com); its Quantitative Management Funds' QM Global Equity Fund is a genuine quantitative equity product line, so the employer operates in quantitative finance. The role is substantive employment, not a student program.Jan 1, 2023
• Career progression at a single employer: joined T. Rowe Price as a Quantitative Analyst in 2018 straight out of his Cornell PhD, promoted to Vice President in 2021 and Senior Vice President in 2023, indicating a steady research-to-senior track rather than job-hopping.Jan 1, 2023
• Co-authored 'The Low-volatility Anomaly and the Adaptive Multi-Factor Model' with Robert A. Jarrow, Martin T. Wells and Liao Zhu; first posted to arXiv March 2020 and published in the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance in 2023.Mar 16, 2020
• PhD in Applied Mathematics and Finance at Cornell University (2012-2018); his doctoral research was in asset pricing and investments under advisor Robert A. Jarrow.Jan 1, 2018
• Passed Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management PhD Qualifying Exam in Finance, the first PhD student from outside the Finance and Economics fields to do so - which explains the unusual breadth into quantitative finance from an applied-math base.Jan 1, 2016
• Represented Albania at the 48th International Mathematical Olympiad (2007), scoring 8 points (P4=7) and earning an Honorable Mention, ranked 365th at the 30th percentile.Jul 1, 2007
• As a 2018 job-market candidate he posted that he would be available for interviews at the AFA (American Finance Association) meeting in Philadelphia, positioning himself for finance-faculty or industry research roles.Jan 1, 2017
• Authored the study book 'How to ACE the Bergen Tech and Bergen Academies Entrance Test', which he makes free for students whose family income is below the poverty line - a signal of sustained interest in education access rather than a one-off.Sep 1, 2015
• Professional skills centre on quantitative equity: alpha research, financial econometrics, asset pricing, portfolio construction, MATLAB, Mathematica, C++ and R.Jan 1, 2023
• BSc in Mathematics from Jacobs University Bremen (2010-2014); his IMO record shows him at Jacobs University Bremen by 2011, consistent with winning the 2007 Albanian IMO honorable mention as a secondary-school student before university.Jan 1, 2014
• Listed among Albanian scientists in mathematics and financial engineering in Albanian-community promotion posts (Intellectual Brand Albania / EXINN Technology Center) as a 'Researcher in Quantitative Equity Investments, T. Rowe Price Corporation, Baltimore'.Jan 1, 2021
• Based in the Washington DC-Baltimore area across all listed T. Rowe Price roles (the Quantitative Analyst role lists Baltimore, T. Rowe Price's headquarters city).Jan 1, 2023