Economists
Economists (with too many hands) find their place in Front Office of investment banks.
Economists (with too many hands) find their place in Front Office of investment banks.
Front Office, the world and customer facing side of an investment bank, houses both the rainmakers and rogue-traders, along with their support teams.
A short introduction to the static structure of an investment bank. We will have much more to say about it later on.
What is a trading platform? Why does everybody want it? And how do we get one? Third post in this series on quantitative development.
Here is the agenda of these posts. And more than you wanted to know about all sorts of agendas.
First post in a long series on Principles of Quantitative Development , on how an investment bank works.
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.
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…
This post is an edited version of my responses in a Webinar panel-discussion organized by Wiley-Finance and FinCAD. The freely available Webcast is linked in the post, and contains responses from the other participants — Paul Wilmott and Espen Huag. An expanded version of this post may later appear as an article in the Wilmott Magazine.
An invite to a Webinar organized by FinCAD and Wiley Global Finance, featuring Paul Wilmott, Epsen Haug and yours faithfully…
Switching from God, philosophy and other higher pursuits, here is a topic close to home. How do people make a lot of money? Can I do it too?
Do you think kids are more materialistic these days? I think so. And I think I know why.