Pierre Raymond
Pierre Raymond is a 25-year veteran of the financial services industry whose career has moved through every angle of capital markets, from quantitative stock picker to award-winning hedge fund manager, credit risk manager, and senior risk and IT banking consultant.
He began on the markets side as a quantitative analyst in equity trading at BMO Capital Markets, building statistical models for trading desks, before moving into hedge fund portfolio management on the buy side, where his fund was recognized for its performance. He later led credit risk at HSBC, and for the past two decades has worked as a senior business and data analyst consultant for BMO, Citi, Scotiabank, CIBC, RBC, Canadian Western Bank, and Bell, focusing on capital markets systems, regulatory and risk frameworks, AML and compliance programs, and cloud-platform analytics.
Pierre holds a Master of Arts in Financial Economics (1995, with Distinction) and a Bachelor of Arts in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics (1993, with Great Distinction) both from Concordia University, where his master’s thesis explored Cointegration and the Canadian Consumption Function and he served as a graduate lecturer. He also holds the Canadian Securities Course (CSC) from the Canadian Securities Institute, alongside professional certifications in SAS programming and decision-tree modeling, Tableau, and Oracle SQL.
His writing career began as a financial journalist for a French-language publication, and his analysis now appears in Seeking Alpha, Benzinga, The Globe and Mail, Entrepreneur, Finance Magnates, CMSWire, SecureWorld, MarketingProfs, Agility PR, Due, and Mental Floss. Pierre is bilingual (English and French) and based in the Greater Toronto Area.
He approaches every piece with a single question: “What does the data actually say?”