Alternative Quant Jobs

tronc · May 8th, 2004, 4:39 pm

Dear allSorry about this, it's a real newbie question. It's pretty clear from other posts that quant jobs are exceptionally difficult to obtain. I'm wondering what sort of alternatives there are for someone with a maths PhD who wants to do highly quantitative work in the finance industry. Is there anything other than actuarial work? Tronc

cekpet · May 9th, 2004, 2:59 pm

Reinsurace companies like Swiss Re

tronc · May 11th, 2004, 11:10 am

Any other suggestions? It would be much appreciated.

BigEddie · May 11th, 2004, 3:20 pm

There are also financial software companies to consider, e.g Sungard, Algorithmics, Riskmetrics, Numerix etc. I went from one of these into a quant job at a IB. You can pick up some extra finance knowledge there and, (hopefully), some good programming skills as well.