Seriously, can all you idiots who don't have any idea how economics and finance actually works leave your bullshit in the other thread? There's...
No. Not at all. What you need is $500,000 worth of economic growth. GDP shouldn't be flat - it should grow over time. That growth is not intrinsic...
I woudn't. The coursework doesn't look terribly relevant to quant finance. It's missing several pretty key courses; it looks more like a...
Maybe I'm getting old (I don't think I've been out of school this long...) - but is Investment now a viable major? It seems a bit... flimsy... a...
This is sort of hard to complete agree or disagree with. There are certainly senior risk manager jobs on the sell side and senior quant/pm/etc on...
Hull is pretty much undergrad/mba level. I think we are talking about actual quant as a degree and career here. Algebra test? Are you serious?
think there are two points here: (1) gre math is rubbish. (2) masters level fin math isn't advanced. I think we all agree on (1). Two, I'd say...
What in the world are you talking about... I don't think anywhere here is claiming that gre 800 math is sufficient. 780+ is, however, necessary....
Tell that to the desk quants who are took home $1MM this march, or the otc dealers who brought home $20MM last year. This retail bravado is just...
I don't think you mean parabolic. I think you mean exponential. But fine - I get what you mean. I don't think it'll be a disaster. Consumer...
You do know this isn't "your" theory, right? It's pretty asine to just look at the stock price without normalizing it by something - say,...
.... um... to service the debt we don't require positive savings, just positive income growth.
You are assuming (rightly or wrongly) that consumer wealth can't grow. Consider the extreme case in which consumer wealth doubles every year. In...
Bullshit. (1) SPLUS is nice but it's not exactly industry standard; every shop has its own preferred software; (2) knowing an econometric package...
GRE math score at top programs are in the 780+ range (no one really cares about the verbal). But you wont' get in on the strength of GRE scores -...
Just so that you know - the vast majorities of quants get stuck in back/middle office risk and portfolio construction. These jobs pay very very...
Just a note: you should probably consider looking spread over swap rather than T. in that case, HY went from about 260bps to about 325bps or so in...
This doesn't even make any sense. Do you know how cdos work?
This got me thinking: MBS never went retail; interest rate swaps never went retail; perhaps things like cds and synthetic tranches will never go...
... there is a part of me who really wants to see retail people trying to trade credit derivatives.... it's got to be hilarious to watch...
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