Asian female quants dominated the female side? I find it quite unbelievable.

<t>Does the obvious small ratio of female quants leads to females' easier entrance into the quant career which is very unbalanced regarding to gender?For example, with the same quality, the company may tend to hire the female applicant than the male applicant?(I am a female PhD student interested in...

<t>Thanks for your reply!The reason I describe myself as not liking too technical things is that I don't like to do only coding. If the coding leads to something interesting then that is OK, but not only coding. You are right. I need to show a solid project in quant, but how? I am looking for an int...

From what you said, it seems that the 'quant' jobs in Bloomberg are different than those in a bank. Is that true?What is the main differences? Actually I wonder a general difference between the financial data service providers such as Bloomberg and Reuters with banks. Thanks!

<t>Hi, I am a PhD student majoring in computer science and also holds a physic undergraduate degree. I am not interested in very technical stuff and I really like to apply numerical skills to quantitative finance. However, I find that entry-level jobs for quants mostly require direct quantitative fi...

<t>I have a very basic question to ask here:It is quite understandable that one can invest in options in order to control the risk, however, why would there be people to write an option? They would only earn the premium but they may lose everything?For example, a call option, if the guy who writes t...

Then what are ppl in the technology department do? such as JPMorgan, BlackRock, etc?

<t>In almost every bank/investment banking/asset management, they will need quantitative analysis. But are there different aims? Such as between CS, DB, JPMorgan etc. E.g., I can guess different banks may originally have different specific focus, such as Fixed income, or debt market, etc. If only fr...

<t>Thank you for your answer!So that means for a financial software developer, it is still a 'developer'. He or she may be doing any kind of software development and it may not necessarily be on financial data. And it doesn't require knowledge in finance mostly. Is it correct?But a quant developer, ...

<t>Hi, I recently got to know that financial service companies like Bloomberg hire financial software developers. I thus get confused about all the different names: quant, financial engineer, quant developer, financial software developer, etc. Can anyone explain? I can't find any article at the foru...