Do you want a job in the finance industry or do uyouwant to do maths. A job is a job and the maths is pretty basic, its engineering. If you are clever and have good social skills you will get a job in a bank, but they won't train you to do advanced maths as they will recruit the experience.

<t>I did my MSc at Kings - it was good but they are heamorraging staff so its not a good choice next year.Birbeck is good, especially if you are part-timeCASS is a bit of a sausage machineWestminster isn't really in the running (no credible research group).The best research groups (and hence will of...

<t>Going back to ephraimscu's post,:Dr Chris Barnett and Dr Dorje Brody are really physicsistsProfessor Alexander Lipton Professor Nick Bingham - are both Visiting ProfessorsDr Jan Obloj - is going to OxfordProfessor Lane P Hughston will join IC from August 2008., also leaving KCL is Dr Arne Lokka (...

<t>Commodities are cyclical, currently commodity expertise is in great demand by the major IBs and they will usually look to recruit specialists from the energy companies. Energy is different from the standard asset categories for lots of reasons. This means that it would be difficult to move into I...

King's is probably better, there is very little finance in the MSc in Mathematical Modelling at UCL. Also Kings is set up to teach part-timers (i.e. all lectures are in the evening). Alternatively Birkbeck is an option

<t>If you are employed (as opposed to self-employed) you can only get tax relief for anything that is necessary to do your job, and anyone doing your job would normally incur, expenses that put you in a position to do your job are not allowed. Your employer can pay the fees directly, and this is usu...

<t>Your first hurdle will be "Mathematical Methods in Finance", which will introduce probability as a form of functional analysis, NOT as a branch of statistics. If you went through the UK/US education system you will think of probability in terms of coin tossing, you will need to approach it in ter...

<t>I started with the PGC in Finance at Birkbeck but did the MSc at Kings. Both were good, Kings was more mathematical that's why I switched. Birkbeck (as a uni) is better set up than King's to take part time students, but the MSc in Finance at Kings is (was?) all evening classes.When I was at King'...

<t>I don't know the energy market in Japan, but my suspicion is that the trading would involve buying oil/coal/LNG,. Experience in these markets is valuable and you could get to London via the commodities desks in Singapore. Your skills sets would suite structuring (I associate quants with coding), ...

<t>bogracer is right, you generally need to understand the market structure (remember if you are trading kerosene, say, and the futures price rises, the refiners will re configure their refineries to produce more kerosene, this will have an effect on the price of other products).Personally I don't l...

<t>Birkbeck first, York second. If fees are an issue consider the Edinburgh / H-W MSc, its one of the longest running in the country and has a good reputation. I would say Leeds and Leicester are marginal.York's staff are good but there will be little on practicalities. Leicester focuses on computat...

They give details of destinations:http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/ams/msc_finmath/careers.htmI have only come across one graduate, a couple of years ago, and I think she went off to do a PhD somewhere

<t>I did the MSc at Kings a few years ago, and did a PGFinance at Birkbeck the year before. I really liked Birkbeck as it is well set up for mature students studying part time.Generally, the institution should not accept you if your BSc means you'll struggle with the maths. That said if you are payi...

<t>Reading various text books on energy/commodity derivatives (Geman, Clewlow and Strickland, Pilipovic but not so much in Eydland), it seems that the assumption is that the relationship between energy futures prices are related to spot prices is the same as the relationship between financial future...

<t>The King's MSc is maths focused, with essentially no data analysis, so for what you want I don't thing it would be a good choice. It was great for me as I went there from Birkbeck because it was more theoretical. In giving advice I had assumed you'd do it part-time. If you are looking for full ti...