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
quantitative finance
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.
Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance, Books
Off the Beaten Track
First post in a long series on Principles of Quantitative Development , on how an investment bank works.
Debates, The Wilmott Magazine, Quantitative Finance
Risk – Wiley FinCAD Webinar
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.
The Wilmott Magazine, Topical, Quantitative Finance
Risk: Interpretation, Innovation and Implementation
An invite to a Webinar organized by FinCAD and Wiley Global Finance, featuring Paul Wilmott, Epsen Haug and yours faithfully…
Quantitative Finance, Columns, The Wilmott Magazine
Physics vs. Finance
The last post in this series of Love of Math looks at how math gets used in physics and finance. Or, more precisely, how one has to be careful about the assumptions in modeling stuff, and the pitfalls of (the lack of) error propagation.
The Wilmott Magazine, Topical, Quantitative Finance, Columns
Math and Patterns
Most kids love patterns. Math is just patterns. So is life. Math, therefore, is merely a formal way of describing life, or at least the patterns we encounter in life. So, where is the difficulty in loving maths? Here is the second post in this series.
Love of Math
This is another short series of posts on love of math — that questionable gift. Recently, I was asked to think about how to make kids love math. Here are my thoughts, as the first of three posts. This article will be published in Wilmott Magazine.
The Wilmott Magazine, Topical, Work and Life, Corporate Life, Quantitative Finance, Columns
In Our Defense
Here is an article defending (to some extent) the insane salary expectations of the elite bankers and traders. And quants. This piece will appear in my regular column in Wilmott Magazine.
Money — Love it or Hate it
This concluding part of the philosophy of money (to appear as a column in the May issue of the Wilmott Magazine) shares my private disappointment that whatever I wrote up may not have been as original as I expected it to be. But the concept of money has been around for a long time now, so I should not dwell on it too much.
Money — Why do We Crave it?
Having looked at the how of money in the last post, here is the why of money in this third post in the my mini-series. Why do we want it so bad?
The Ultra Rich
This second post of the mini series based on my upcoming column in the Wilmott Magazine looks at how people make money in a scalable fashion. It was posted earlier in this blog.