Thanks for your input vbprogrammer. Are their interview process similar to IB?

I am going to have a interview from a quant in a top consulting firm. It is about credit risk management. Could you guys please give me some clues?It seems this year's job market is really cooling down, am I right?

<t>The stupidest thing in China's college entrance examination is that they always have very odd exercises in their Chinese Language Test. Its funny that my Chinese score is not as high as my English score: my Chinese score is usually 90/150 but my english score is 120/150. Although that, I managed ...

Time serise book:Enders"applied econometric time series"Tsay"analysis of financial time series"

As I know, it is tougher than any other math master courses, at least in Europe.

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: StatTraderIn terms of being able to do the job ? No, I don't think it is essential. Other than implying a person satisfies a minimum level of intelligence, all a Phd really proves is that someone was willing to put in the time.Having said that, you'll find it hard getti...

<t>It is a common question now:Current job market seems quite tough for a finance phd to enter the quant area. Therefore, if a phd in finance from a top 10 uk university(unfortunately, not warwick) is hunting for a quant position, should he/she choose a master in math/statistics/finmath or just achi...

how about quants, instead of front office role, from top 20 UK PhD program?

QuoteOriginally posted by: DCFCMaybe I should publish my list...we are waiting....

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: KackToodlesQuoteOriginally posted by: jfuquaWhat about Carr, Dupire, Andreasen, L. Andersen, Piterbarg, Brotherton-Radcliffe, Musiela, Hagan, Gatarek, Rebanato, Lipton, etc. ? Those are only off the top of my head.What journals have these guys published in? I read mostl...

QuoteOriginally posted by: DCFCWhy aren't you looking at Warwick ?cuz warwick people are doing financial mathematics in business school, and they provide phd in finance instead of phd in mathematics!

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: ppauperQuoteOriginally posted by: migalleyQuoteOriginally posted by: dibble-- Look at China's attitude over Taiwan. Behavior of a civilized country ? No.I do not agree with the China's position towards Taiwan, but I am not so sure what the People's Republic of China hav...

<t>Designing numerical algorithm isn't much different than designing computing algorithm. Although still a long way to go, the best way for you is:advanced calculus---differential equations,PDE----wilmott-------numerical analysis----paperBooks recommended:1. Differential Equations: Linear, Nonlinear...

<t>It seems that signal processing is very popular in banks at the moment. Dominic claim that signal processing had all techniques in QF. I summarize the relevant techniques and their applications in finance as follows:1. inference,difference, transformation and filtering----Data Clean2. Estimation ...

Hi guys, thank you very much for your input. I guess quant in front office should have better up side profit, right? Is risk management people easy to move to portfolio management?