Trading Risk

What sort of background does someone who works in the risk area of a trading operation have? Is it an actuarial type position or one that anyone good at math could step into?

What about at banks and hedge funds? These places seem to have "Chief Risk Officers" but it's hard to find information on what they studied, etc.

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OP finance is optimal, but I know people who are in risk with business degrees.

To people on this forum, you don't need to major in the most quantitative subject to land a job in finance.

That is all.

 

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