<t>No phD doesn't necessarily mean no quant job (also quant is too vague: is it dev, pure research, risk ?), science/engineering MSc's can also be considered for these positions, provided they're really good. An MBA imho is clearly not enough for a quant job, but other doors are open (sales, vanilla...

<t>@ Twofish: yeah maybe I can become the expert in moroccan yield curve forecasting, since according to my MD, it has been done before but it failed: with an inefficient, illiquid market, pure mathematical models are bound to fail, so I am trying to incorporate relevant macroeconomic variables on t...

<t>Thanks Gmike for your answer, actually I don't intend to settle down yet and would rather enjoy an international career for a decade or so in a challenging environment (lived a diplomat's life, being abroad most of the time). Morocco is great when you are in your mid-thirties / fourties and you w...

<t>Dear all, I have recently graduated from Polytechnic Federal School of Lausanne (EPFL) in Applied Mathematics (Msc). I have started an internship on the Fixed Income desk at the first Moroccan bank, working on yield curve modelling and prediction (C++) but also some macroeconomic research, mainly...