<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: DominicConnorTJ has a point, a PhD can get you through the British points based immigration system, though of course I cannot forecast what it will be like when you finish in 4 years time.It's harsh to say, but the centre of your career planning in India should be how t...

QuoteOriginally posted by: ArthurDentThe List so far: (Feb 18, 2010)MS MumbaiGS BangaloreCS Mumbai, PuneDB Mumbai $50kWorld Quant - BangaloreD E Shaw - HyderabadAdding a few more companies to the listFidelity - Bangalore and Gurgoanglobeop - mumbai

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: BullBearThe Modigliani-Miller theorem (of Franco Modigliani, Merton Miller) forms the basis for modern thinking on capital structure. The basic theorem states that, under a certain market price process (the classical random walk), in the absence of taxes, bankruptcy cos...

<r>QuoteOriginally posted by: linearThanks for all suggestions and comments. The book by Jorion is now ordered.Regarding the book by Holton: Is the 'essential mathematics' part of his book (that is Chapters 2, 3 and 4) just as found in most introductory books on statistics and mathematics or does th...

Value at Risk : Theory and Practice - Glyn HoltonThis book has lots of practice questions.In addition you can post questions at http://www.riskchat.com which is run by the author.

<t>The dotcom bubble is a good casestudy of what we can expect in the future. This crisis is only a correction for an immature market.The IT market after the dotcom crash turned out to be more booming than it was before the crash - but in a sensible way.Maybe we can expect a similar boom in the bank...

<t>Basel has divided bank capital into pools1. Banking book - consists instruments held for long term 2. Trading book - consists instruments held for short termfx and commodities may have been considered as part of both the books owing to their speculative and volatile nature. They may become expens...

<t>Herd behaviour can also be due to the complexity of the financial products.For eg. The MBS and CDO caused the mayhem in the current financial crisis. The complexity of these instruments made it difficult for investors to understand before investing in them. Their risk was understood in a primitiv...

2. In theory percentiles do not follow sub - additive property. Hence VaR(X+Y) can be between 0 and - infinity.

Hello outrun, What are the universities in US which admits PhD students who are working professionals either in quant finance or risk management?

<t>The business analyst typically performs a liaison function between the business side of an enterprise and the providers of services to the enterprise.The expertise of a BA varies widely between different companies.The following job advt. from efinancialcareers.com demands quant skillsCommodities ...