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Hello, So the big news story this week is Mitt Romney's 13.9% tax rate. His rate is so slow because "carried interest" is taxed at the capital gains rate of 15%. I was wondering if this low rate applies to all employees in the hedge fund industry in the United States. Typically hedge funds...

Hi all, I'm working for a foreign investment bank in NYC, and the trading desk I work for is a proprietary trading business. I've heard that the Volker rule could ban all prop trading at all investment banks in the US. I know most of the US banks have closed their prop trading desks, but what...

Anyone have any data (official or otherwise) about acceptance rates for FE/Math Finance programs? I know Baruch's is 14%, but I'm trying to find data for some other programs. How about Columbia, NYU, Stanford, UCB, Chicago, Princeton, etc? Thanks.