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by beeliner
October 2nd, 2007, 8:57 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Vanilla IRS trader vs. Exotic Market risk
Replies: 5
Views: 65860

Vanilla IRS trader vs. Exotic Market risk

<t>Thanks Penang. but it would help a great deal if you extend on that a little bit. particularly because although I do understand that experience is important in trading but understanding the risks of the exotic structures seem more important to me..given rest is equald80013, i used to be in struct...
by beeliner
September 28th, 2007, 5:53 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: administor, pls help me delete this
Replies: 0
Views: 64301

administor, pls help me delete this

this is posted by mistake, but not sure how to delete
by beeliner
September 28th, 2007, 5:18 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Vanilla IRS trader vs. Exotic Market risk
Replies: 5
Views: 65860

Vanilla IRS trader vs. Exotic Market risk

<t>Could someone help me out here. I am struggling with this choice between vanilla swap trader and a role in market risk.Needless to say, the most important thing would be what i want to do, but there is a couple of things i need to find out:1. I've never been in the middle-office and risk manageme...
by beeliner
March 27th, 2006, 12:06 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: PhD Finance for quant
Replies: 32
Views: 196478

PhD Finance for quant

<t>When i started this thread, i hadn't considered the fact that the field of quantitative finance is relatively new and therefore it is natural that there are more PhDs in quantitative sciences working as quants. Most masters courses in FE have only just been set up some years ago and PhDs even lat...
by beeliner
June 9th, 2005, 11:44 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Who Loves @RISK ?
Replies: 10
Views: 190350

Who Loves @RISK ?

Does @Risk price exotic options as well? What are its limits in terms of usage?
by beeliner
June 9th, 2005, 3:22 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: What is stochastic discount factor?
Replies: 5
Views: 146743

What is stochastic discount factor?

What is the stochastic discount factor?This is quite an important concept, yet it's hard to find a clear cut explanation on this anywhere in introductory books - at least I thought. Could anyone give it a shot?
by beeliner
June 7th, 2005, 2:25 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Motivation to enter swap
Replies: 10
Views: 147072

Motivation to enter swap

Ah of course. Sorry my mistake. It was an old example.
by beeliner
June 6th, 2005, 4:56 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Motivation to enter swap
Replies: 10
Views: 147072

Motivation to enter swap

<t>Here is a case i'd like to ask on:Q: Three years ago, Euroco Limited, entered into a swap transaction following the raising of a 6-year $150 million syndicated facility to fund a major acquisition. The loan was priced at 3 months LIBOR plus 0.75%. The facility was immediately swapped. At that tim...
by beeliner
June 6th, 2005, 3:29 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Job in Korea
Replies: 4
Views: 147373

Job in Korea

QuoteOriginally posted by: ppaupernorth or south ?you are so not-international...ts ts
by beeliner
March 24th, 2005, 12:26 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Tax issues in bond pricing
Replies: 0
Views: 155220

Tax issues in bond pricing

<t>Has anybody come up with this issue? Tax regulations are all different across countries.. and not only did i find it difficult to find the relevant tax informations but also to price them and develop a reasonable feel for the effect of tax in the pricing... I don't think it can be any more compli...
by beeliner
March 17th, 2005, 2:12 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: How can Goldmans as a non-commercial bank be a major player in trading markets?
Replies: 6
Views: 157391

How can Goldmans as a non-commercial bank be a major player in trading markets?

<t>I can understand how banks backed by commercial banking like Deutsche or JP Chase can be a big player in the markets because they can use their customers' deposits to trade. But I heard Goldmans ara also one of the major players. How can that be when they are essentially a brokerage firm? Brokera...
by beeliner
March 16th, 2005, 1:03 pm
Forum: Numerical Methods Forum
Topic: how useful is binomial method?
Replies: 22
Views: 160619

how useful is binomial method?

<t>I would appreciate it if someone could provide me some insight as to how useful binomial model is compared to other methods...such as monte-carlo or finite differential. Or are they not something you can draw a line inbetween?? I am a novice to this area and often come across binomial models in b...
by beeliner
March 8th, 2005, 3:05 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: What's a typical career path to fixed income fund manager?
Replies: 0
Views: 156962

What's a typical career path to fixed income fund manager?

<t>To be a guy like, say, Bill Gross... a fixed income portfolio manager at a buy-side asset management..what kind of path should one take?Most of the recruitment by the buy-side asset management companies seem to hire fund managers for equities from school or MBAs but i've never seen any recruitmen...
by beeliner
February 26th, 2005, 7:56 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: How does dollar policy actually work?
Replies: 5
Views: 158704

How does dollar policy actually work?

<t>Thanks for your replies guys. I think Farmer's comment that "it's more like saying what they won't do" pretty much sums it up..I kinda thought so but considering such a strong degree to which the market actually responded in accordance.. i thought maybe there was something more than that.. someth...
by beeliner
February 24th, 2005, 10:03 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: How does dollar policy actually work?
Replies: 5
Views: 158704

How does dollar policy actually work?

<t>Remember "Strong dollar policy" when Bush first came in. I just wondered how does the government actually make it happen?It's not like they directly intervene in the FX market or anything, is it..what do(or did) they do to make it happen?Because unless the govt actually has a way to control it, t...
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