<t>I have worked at a 1bn hedge fund as a quant research analyst for 2 years with a main responsibility to develop model to generate systematic trading signals. The job is interesting itself and my line manger is a very nice and experienced person who instructed me a lot. However, the owner of the f...

hi allcan anyone comments on hedge funds using relative value fixed income strategy, is it a promising area in the HF industry. Will that be a good place for quant?

Escape, thanks for the quick reply and the comments.

<t>I recently got an offer from a new hedge fund as a statistical arbitrage Quant. (I am entry level to finance with Eng Ph.D background). The fund has about 10 people working there and managed about $500M. I wonder is this a typical size of small or medium HF in UK, and how is the stability and pro...

hi allI may have a chance to work for a consulting company doing derivative pricing for real estate market. Does anyone have idea if this is a promising area? Maybe I am a bit ignorant, but it is first time I heard derivatives in estate market. Any comment will be appreciated.

<t>I got a call from one agent I met recently asking my permission to send my CV proactively to a long list of banks and funds to explore if there is any position arises.Is that the typical way to do it? I am junior and i know I have limited appreciation by the market. But I doubt this way of repres...

<t>hi allI am trying to calculate Delta-Gamma VAR for a portfolio consisting of spread options which depend on two underlying assets. But I have little knowledge of how to calculate cross-gamma term. Does the cross-gamma have closed form like gamma for a Euro option? Really appreciate if anyone can ...

Yes, it's in pound and location is London

<t>hi, allI was offered a job from a financial consultancy company. I am still not sure sure if I should take it, since the career path for the job is vague.The job is mainly to price executive's stock option and warranty for corporate companies . The majority of this company are from busininess, la...

hi, I applied to a remuneration consultancy company for a sort-of quant role, which seems require a decent knowledge of option pricing. Anyone can explain a bit how the option pricing be used in remuneration industry? Thanks

hi, allI will have a quant interview at Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets soon. Anyone can kindly share some experience, if any, regarding the type of questions that may encountered. It seems that they are interviewing a bunch of people these days.Thanks a lot!!~~

<t>I found this teaser recently, anyone will suggest a clue to trackle it. Forgive me if it has bee posted before.Alice and Bob play a game in which they take turns removing stones from a heap that initially has n stones.The number of stones removed at each turn must be one less than a prime number....

Many thanks tigerman, very helpful. You had THREE phone screenings in total? It sounds tough.Good luck for your job hunting..

hi, all, I am new here. I will have a phone interview with Constellation Energy soon for a quant role. Anyone had experienced that? What kinda of questions to expect? Many thanks for any suggestion.