<t>I was searching the internet for job opportunities at small risk management/structured derivatives firms. I came across a company called Capital Market Risk Advisors (New York). It was started by Leslie Rahl who is apparently a very prominent person in the derivatives field. Has anyone heard of t...

Oh yeah, I live in the U.S. so any suggestions of prorams should be in the States. Thanks

<t>Ok this is a mulit-part question, not to be confused with the MBA vs. PHD question. Are there a large number of Masters programs in Finance? If so, what are some good programs. If someone goes to a masters program like this, but decides to continue on to their PHD is this do-able?Thirdly, If some...

Ahh by "studying at Wharton" you thought MBA, no I'm just a lowly undergrad trying to learn more about Quanitative Finance, thinking of getting a PHD....

<t>Gregoryv I am studying at Wharton, and one day I asked a Finance PHD a simple question about the rules on trading the same stock on different indexes. He had absolutely no idea. His thesis involves writing a program to model the entire economy, yet he struggled to answer a simple question after f...

<t>Thanks alot AaronYou mentioned that this would fix the price, but not eliminate all the risks. What other risks would still be present. There wouldn't be any interest rate risk, since I'm hedging with something that has the same relationship with interest rates. Or would there?Kritchey, How long ...

<t>Suppose that a company is going to purchase a certain amount of a commodity one year from now, but the price they pay will be determined by the average closing spot price during the month before the contract closes out. Is there a standard way of addressing this problem, i.e. hedging this risk aw...