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Risk versus Portfolio Management
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Review of Princeton’s Master in Finance program
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Jim Gatheral leaves Merrill Lynch to join Baruch...
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Review of MIT Sloan Master in Finance program
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Pricing ABX index for Newbies
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Review of Georgia Tech QCF program
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Review of Claremont Graduate University’s Financial Engineering program
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Review of Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF) program
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Review of UC Berkeley MFE program
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Review of Baruch College’s Financial Engineering 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.
QuantNetwork to stop support of IE6 browser
Effective February 1, 2010, QuantNetwork will begin phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 in our sites and forum. We are joining a long and growing list of other companies and websites who no longer support the older browser IE6. To see which companies are joining this effort, please visit ie6nomore
The reasons for our decision [...]
CME Introduces Populist Outrage Derivatives
The CME Group announced the launch of a suite of products that quantify anger directed toward the US financial industry. Robert Spruill – financial engineer at State Street, shares his opinion on what he called “Populist Outrage Derivatives”.
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