Quantitative Finance v. Investment Management
I have been interested in these two fields and our school allows us to specialize within a finance major. I would like to work in Consulting or Wealth Management/Hedge Funds.
Within quant finance the main and only quant related course is Statisics and Modeling and I am not sure if how hard would it be (Calculus wasn't my best subject so should I avoid the track)? Also investment management is also very enticing but I don't see much hype about it so I am still kind of skeptical about it.
I was wondering if anyone could convince me why Quant Finance or IM is better?
Thanks
I think I know where you go to school... why not the Corp. Fin. & IB Track?
Ahh fellow Longhorn? That was also an option at one point. IB doesn't seem very interesting to me but I do feel that track would be very versatile should I stick with that one?
I don't know either bro.. I still need to figure out what I want to concentrate in too. The CF&IB description mentions something about consulting, though. (http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/BBA/Advising/Degree-Planning/Business-Maj…)
I think you should just go with the concentration you find more interesting
Quant Finance might as well just be called applied mathematics. If you want to break into quant finance, finance is not the core of what you are doing - math/stat and computer science is. If calculus wasn't your best subject, then definitely avoid it.
The finance tracks at UT differ by 2-3 courses. Compared to the total 7-8 required.
Don't tell me that your "Stats for Quantity/Fin and MIS" classes will make you THE quant guy. This applies to other tracks. You think majoring in energy finance grants you access to more energy jobs than a general finance major on OCR? (Although it sounds pretty cool). At most it is only a conversation starter. My advice: Do general finance and take finance courses which interest you. I've seen plenty of resumes from Texas, very few of them actually list out their track.
Now if you are Finance/FAP, that's another story.
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