Columns

A large number of posts in this blog are my columns published in the Singaporean newspaper called “Today,” and in a well-known quantitative finance magazine called The Wilmott Magazine. These published (and upcoming) columns are blogged here for your reading pleasure.

Columns, The Wilmott Magazine, Quantitative Finance

Quant Talent Management

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How to retain quant talent? Published in the Wilmott Magazine, March 2008.

The trouble with quants is that it is hard to keep them anchored to their moorings. Their talent is in high demand for a variety of reasons. The primary reason is the increasing sophistication of the banking clients, who demand increasingly more structured products with specific hedging and speculative motives. Servicing their demand calls for a small army of quants supporting the trading desks and systems. […]

Columns, The Wilmott Magazine, Quantitative Finance

Benford and Your Taxes

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This article that appeared in the Jan 2008 issue of the Wilmott Magazine explores the fascinating numerical phenomenal of the first digits in real-life numbers.

[…] The calculated creativity in tax returns seldom pays off. Your calculations of expected pain and suffering are never consistent with the frequency with which IRS audits you. The probability of an audit is, in fact, much higher if you try to inflate your tax deductions. You can blame Benford for this skew in probability stacked against your favor. […]

Columns, The Wilmott Magazine, Quantitative Finance

Quant Life in Singapore

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A whacky look at the life of a quant in Singapore. Published in the Wilmott Magazine in Nov 2007.

[…] Among the highly skilled workforce are scattered a hundred or so typically timid and self-effacing souls with bulging foreheads and dreamy eyes behind thick glasses. They are the Singaporean quants, and this short article is their story. […]

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