Dmitry Rakhlin

Dr. Rakhlin joined AllianceBernstein in 2008 as a Senior Quantitative Trader on buy-side Equity Trading desk. He is currently heading global research effort across Equities and Fixed Income trading with a broad goal of advancing execution efficiency and ultimately positioning trading as an integral part of the firm’s investment process. Dmitry's team is focused on building an "actionable TCA" - the process that allows to understand and measure the factors driving short-term market dynamics in the timeframe of making investment decisions and trade implementation. This work is done in close collaboration with portfolio managers, investment research, trading, and back office. The outcome of this effort is optimal order timing and trade implementation as well as better liquidity risk controls. Previously, Dr. Rakhlin was a Senior Quantitative Researcher at Citadel Investment Group working on the Stat Fixed Income Currency and Commodity Desk. Prior to joining Citadel in 2006, Dmitry spent 6 years at Goldman Sachs where he began his career building high-frequency trading strategies for their electronic trading platforms. He then joined the GSAT (Goldman Sachs Algorithmic Trading) team in 2003 as a Senior Strategist. Dr. Rakhlin has a Ph.D degree in Physics from New York University as well as a M.S. in Financial Mathematics from NYU/Courant.