Risk versus Portfolio Management
Jim Gatheral leaves Merrill Lynch to join Baruch MFE program
Review of Princeton’s Master in Finance program
Read reviews of the Master in Finance program at Princeton University by current students. Share the review and invite others to submit one of their program
Jim Gatheral leaves Merrill Lynch to join Baruch MFE program
The addition of Jim Gatheral, along with several other well-known practitioners, caps off recent faculty hirings by the Baruch MFE program.
Review of MIT Sloan Master in Finance program
Read reviews of the new Master in Finance program at MIT, Sloan by current students. Share the review and invite others to submit one of their program
The Hollow Men of Financial Engineering
Sylvain Raynes follows his controversial essay on the sorry state of Financial Engineering education with another article where he offers suggestions to define the quant profession and how to fix the MFE curriculum.
ILLINOIS MFE Program Announces Appointment of New Director
Morton N. Lane has been appointed as director of the new Master of Science in Financial Engineering Program (MSFE), a joint program of the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering and the Department of Finance at Illinois.
Will the real Paul Volcker please stand up?
Who is the real Paul Volcker? Author William D. Cohan investigates the changing tone in policy of the influential former Fed Chairman since he was recently appointed chairman of the newly formed Economic Recovery Advisory Board under President Barack Obama.
The Top 10 Things Practitioners Really Want from Financial Engineers
Teri Geske, Lecturer and Executive in Residence, UCLA Anderson MFE program shares with QuantNetwork top 10 things Wall Street firms want from a quant.
Tech trends to watch in 2010
How the social networking, discussion forum, open API, freemium business models have changed the way we communicate and work online. A look at what tech trends will shape the web in 2010 and beyond.
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