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Hi all, In the spirit of sharing and helping prospective students, I thought I’d do an AMA. I recently broke into quant trading and would have found something like this quite useful a year ago. who am I: I’m about to join a semi-systematic pod at a hedge fund as an analyst. My background is in pure mathematics (non-target for undergrad) followed by Part III at University of Cambridge, where I foc…

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Hi all, In the spirit of sharing and helping prospective students ( I'm a senior buy side quant researcher. AMA ), it's my honor to use this platform to interact with students who might be interested in this career path. Who Am I : I'm a quantitative researcher working in systematic trading. I develop alpha signals to forecast the future prices of various financial instruments. I first learned C+…

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Hi everyone! I’m currently a Junior Quantitative Researcher at a multi-manager hedge fund in New York. I’m part of a central team - though interestingly we trade our own strategies rather than supporting other pods, so it feels a bit like running our own mini-pod within the firm. Before starting this role, I completed my MFE at Baruch College. I’ve had internship experience on both mid-frequency …

Hey All, I'm trying to compile a list of reputable online programs/schools students can go through to complete their pre-reqs post-degree. In general, US schools have a preference for courses completed through accredited colleges/universities - ones assigned credit hours (not usually just pass/fail). Many programs have an outside academic reader review course descriptions (and even the syllabi if…

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By Linda Kreitzman, Executive Director of the Master of Financial Engineering Program at Berkeley Master of Financial Engineering programs’ students have, in my view, a very wide array of job opportunities in front of them, and not just in traditional quantitative finance with roles as strats at an I-bank, or researchers/portfolio managers at a hedge fund, derivatives traders, or in high frequenc…

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