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Besides the technical skills, you should either have interesting ideas or access to some proprietary data.

Does anyone know what percentage of submitted papers are published in the top three finance journals?

Hi everyone! Objective: Planning to work in industry. Programming Experience: SAS, MATLAB, SQL Current Work: PhD student Intended Pace: As fast as I can.

It is not possible.

Yes I got a confirmation e-mail, I also received an e-mail on September 29th. I'll write a pm about this.

When do you think the next group will start and how can I learn my group number? I am sorry, but I don't think I received or noticed the e-mail you sent on October 24th.

This is one of the most downloaded twentyfive articles in Sciencedirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304405X98000270 Abstract Recent empirical research in finance has uncovered two families of pervasive regularities: underreaction of stock prices to news such as earnings...

There is an interesting article about this on SSRN: Global, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1364911&rec=1&srcabs=962706

Next year around this time I will be ready to graduate from a finance Phd program. In my department they expect us to get jobs in academia, so I don't know much about getting a job in private sector process. I am not even sure when I should start sending applications or contact headhunters, 6...

Any suggestions?

Thank you both. I will buy the last US edition and share my experience later here.

I am working on Hull's chapters from FRM's website and I want to buy the buy solutions manual, but there several editions. The cover of book on FRM's website looks like the last version but it says 2006 edition. Does anyone know which edition FRM is using ? Also is there much difference...

I have been working on PRM exam, but in most of the ads I read FRM is being mentioned (although there is "etc.") I am wondering now if I should wait till fall and take the FRM exam.

I have the first book. It is a good book with quite a number of examples. It has sections on portfolio theory etc. If you are new to this area it will give you a good basis.

So now I know the job descriptions do not matter much but as a finance Phd student I am trying to figure out on which part of the trading process I could be more useful. That's is why I have another question, if you please. Do some of these jobs require less C++ skills than developer positions...