Trading Desks
The profit centers of an investment bank, trading desks command enormous prestige. And bonuses, which can easy range up to a few times their annual salary.
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Corporate Life
Dilbert-like thoughts
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Sales and Structuring
Sales – another crucial team in the Front Office of any bank.
Quantitative Finance, Books, Corporate Life
Economists
Economists (with too many hands) find their place in Front Office of investment banks.
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Front Office
Front Office, the world and customer facing side of an investment bank, houses both the rainmakers and rogue-traders, along with their support teams.
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Structure of a Bank
A short introduction to the static structure of an investment bank. We will have much more to say about it later on.
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Trading Platform
What is a trading platform? Why does everybody want it? And how do we get one? Third post in this series on quantitative development.
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Agendas
Here is the agenda of these posts. And more than you wanted to know about all sorts of agendas.
Books, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance
Off the Beaten Track
First post in a long series on Principles of Quantitative Development , on how an investment bank works.
Work and Life, Books, Corporate Life
Quiet Me
On why I like to be quiet and keep listening to a world that can’t stop talking. It is prelude to an upcoming review of the book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain.
Was Yours, Now Mine
This article is a follow-up to my last post on what was troubling my conscience. This is also a rant on the modern capitalism of the corporate era, where we have all become tiny cogs in a giant wheel inexorably rolling on to nowhere in particular, but obliterating much in the process.
Work and Life, Corporate Life, Environment
Troubled Conscience
Do you feel troubled and responsible for things over which you have no control? If you do, this post may help you get by. Then again, it may make it worse…
French, Humor, Corporate Life
Speak Your Language
A small anecdote to illustrate why one should stick to one’s language when arguing.