While collaboration and intellectual rigor is prized, the firm isn't "throwing spaghetti at the walls." Performance matters — as evidenced by CFM's strong run in recent years.CFM was an early practitioner of the collegial, academic ethos model that's now common at many quant trading firms. Cofounder Jean-Pierre Aguillar, an engineer and computer scientist, launched CFM in 1991 and helped define the firm's culture before his death in a gliding accident in 2009.Compared with multimanagers that dominate today' ...