Understanding the Difference Between Risk Taking, Risk Management and Risk Control
Monday, March 14th, 2011
Was risk management and quantitative modeling or the people implementing risk management strategies that failed?
MFE Application Numbers and Jobs – Back on the Rise?
Saturday, March 5th, 2011
After a steep drop during the financial crisis, interest in MFE programs is again on the rise according to latest application numbers
The Coming Glut of Financial Engineers
Friday, February 18th, 2011
How many MFEs will graduate in 2011? What about in 2016? 2021? Where will they all go? Will the finance industry be able to support them?
From Undergraduate to Quant at Princeton
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Evans Xiang, 2010 Princeton graduate who is now research analyst at Two Sigma Investments shares his perspectives on his quant career path
A Day in the Life of an Emerging Market Trader
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
A prop trader in an emerging market shares his daily routine, up and down, the stress as he contemplates MFE degree for his future career
Jay Dweck, Global Head of Strategy and Technology left Morgan Stanley
Friday, January 21st, 2011
Jay Dweck, global head of strategies and technology at Morgan Stanley, left the investment bank after a three and half years stint
Quantnet’s Best-Selling Books of 2010
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
The best-selling books of 2010. Popular on the list are books for financial engineering students, quant interviews, of Wall Street culture
Steve Shreve on Pablo Triana’s The Flawed Math of Financial Models
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
Steve Shreve’s rebuttal of Pablo Triana’s criticism of the curriculum of the quantitative finance programs
Rutgers to Launch Third Quant Master Program
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Rutgers University announced the Financial Statistics and Risk Management (FSRM) program, third quant master program after MSMF and MQF
A day in the Life of a London software contractor
Monday, December 13th, 2010
A Quantnet member describes a typical day as a software contractor at a financial institution in London’s business district, Canary Wharf.
