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Weekend Wars: Qualitative vs. Quantitative
About two years ago, I had a fascinating market related conversation with the son of a high ranking Chinese Communist Party member who had recently finished a top 5 MBA program stateside. He was celebrating all over town and the entourage grew by the bottle. By the time I bumped into him, the next...
Bond Funds Implode in 3...2...1...
Bond funds have been on my mind lately. I know today is Election Day and some of you are expecting me to opine about the possible outcomes. Meh. No matter who you vote for, government still wins. With the exception of California Prop 19 (vote YES if you're eligible), I'm really pretty disinterested...
I want a quantitative education also but...
I don't know if it's best for what I want to do. Well I'll be going to Michigan's LSA (language, science, and arts) next year and trying to get into Ross. I'm thinking if I get in I'd like to double major in Business Administration with a focus in accounting or finance and computer science... the...
Help me understand QE2
Sorry for the long post, I have a lot of questions. Even if you only answer one question or clarify one point, it'd still help me tremendously. This is basically what I know (skip this paragraph if you want to get to my actual questions): The whole idea of quantitative easing is to buy treasuries...
BlackRock Graduate Program - Numerical test
Hi, I received an email from BlackRock about an application I made for the Risk & Quantitative Analysis graduate program (part of their portfolio management group ). They wanted me to take an online numerical test. I did it today and I think I did 17 right out of 20 (the questions were exactly...
Fidelity Quantitative Research Analyst
I have an interview coming up for a "quantitative research analyst" role at Fidelity . What is the salary/bonus like for a job like this? Also, what is the typical career path like? Many of my friends tell me that they would take this over any IBD job because people in IBD / PE want to exit to a...
GS Securities Quantitative Winter Workshop
Anyone else get invited to this for tomorrow? Know what it entails? I'm interested much more in IBD but applied to this, and was accepted. Have no quantitative background whatsoever but was accepted anyways, which was strange. Was also denied to a general 1-day program sponsored by my school, so I...
Quant Education
I am about to complete an a UK BSc in Economics and Econometrics. I want to become a Quantitative Analyst one day but I have never heard of quants coming from this sort of background. My questions are: 1.) Since I'm looking at applying for an MSc in Statistics and eventually going into a PhD in that...
GMAT Woes
Just took the GMAT this morning and I got a 720. That's the 94th percentile you say, good for you! Except not. My breakdown is 41Q, 48V which equates to the 58th percentile on the quant part and well into the 99th percentile for verbal. Problem is, most schools could care less about my verbal score....
FT BB analyst resume help.
I am trying to break into a BB . Preferably to work in a quantitative field, but my experiences are kind of irrelevant. Any comment is greatly appreciated. I also double if my cover letter is too short to too cheesy. Thank you in advance. Resume: http://www.razume.com/documents/16876 Cover letter:...
BoA Quantitative Mangaement Program
Does anyone have any info on BoA's QMAP program? What they ask in the interview, comp, exit opps etc?
Proprietary Electronic Trading Firm - New Firm - Seeking Pedigree C++ Developers - Chareston, SC (will relocate)
Seeking Entrepeneural Mind Set. This person would be a starting member of this firm and share the PnL of the desk. Job Description: Independent systematic trading company is seeking developers to work on its platform and trading software. The candidates will be expected to design, implement, and...
GMAT Prep - Books/Classes Worth It?
Do most people take gmat courses or intensive at-home study options, or how long does one usually spend preparing for a GMAT exam? I know there are some posts on here from certain people asking how to study, etc but I was wondering if most people (at least those who did really well on the exam)...
IBD, Consulting, Hedge Fund, Quantitative Trading: Summer Internship decision HELP!
Hi, I was wondering if you guys could help me make a decision regarding my summer internship . So a little background about myself: I don't really know much about finance. I just applied to several jobs and have been cramming for interviews the night before each one. I want to learn a lot about...
How Much Would A Lack of Math Skills Hurt in ER?
Hi, I was wondering how important quant skills are in equity research (I've been reading about it, and it seems like a field that suits me fairly well)? I know that for trading , quant majors are looked upon favorably and that majoring in something like finance may actually hurt you, but I was...
DRW Business Analyst Interview
I was wondering if anyone knew how the interview for DRW's Summer business analyst position was? Is it as technical/quant as the trading DRW interviews?
Usefulness of mathematical finance
I'm at CMU right now doing the finance track in tepper but I'm thinking of applying for comp fi in the spring. How much would this help if I'm leaning towards M&A but wouldn't be opposed to S&T? I don't have that much by way of S&T experience so I went after a M&A internship in Asia for the summer....
Engineer - Over to Business
Hi, I was hoping that some current business/finance professionals could give some advice in regards to a change I am hoping to make regarding my career. I'll try to make it quick but anything would be appreciated. I went to Rutgers and graduated with an engineering degree two and a half years ago. I...
Which valuation metrics to use?
I'm trying to do a comparable companies analysis for a company in the industrial sector and was wondering what ratios/metrics I should be using for companies in this industry and why. So far, I've decided to use: EV / EBITDA EV /Revenue FCF /Share FCF Yield Dividend Yield P/E Debt/ EBITDA Am I right...
Morgan Stanley - Process Driven Trading
These guys just came and did a big presentation at Stanford. They seem to be MS's proprietary high frequency algorithmic trading group. As far as I can make out, there isn't much of a lead role for undergrads to play in such a desk - you're either doing research or doing development/implementation....
Structuring - How quantitative is structuring?
I did a search on role of a structurer and the desired skillset. However all that I came across was a need for "excellent quant skills" and stuff in similar vein. To clarify, how much of quant knowledge are we considering? Is it maybe linear algebra, basic probability theory excel manipulations or...
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