OVVO Labs and Fred Viole
Episode 5 of the Talking Tuesdays with Fancy Quant podcast, hosted by Dimitri Bianco, titled "OVVO Labs and Fred Viole" was published on August 5, 2025 and runs 66 minutes.
August 5, 2025 ·66m · Talking Tuesdays with Fancy Quant
Summary
Send us Fan Mail Fred Viole is the founder of OVVO Labs and has been putting together a complete statistical framework using partial moments and nonlinear and nonparametric statistics (NNS). He also has an R package which is free called, NNS. The application of NNS to finance is proprietary and what OVVO Labs uses to sell macroeconomic forecasts, a utility based portfolio optimization tool, and an option pricing tool. From the horse race tracks to trading and to the chase of an entrepreneuri...
Episode Description
Fred Viole is the founder of OVVO Labs and has been putting together a complete statistical framework using partial moments and nonlinear and nonparametric statistics (NNS). He also has an R package which is free called, NNS. The application of NNS to finance is proprietary and what OVVO Labs uses to sell macroeconomic forecasts, a utility based portfolio optimization tool, and an option pricing tool.
From the horse race tracks to trading and to the chase of an entrepreneurial journey, Fred Viole is changing Wall Street and the finance world as we know it.
OVVO Labs
https://www.ovvolabs.com/
Presentation, "Partial Moments in Quantitative Finance"
https://www.ovvolabs.com/media/
R NNS Package:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/NNS/index.html
Video version:
https://youtu.be/DYDTD3_76VA
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