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EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Dominic Connor of Paul & Dominic (P&D) |
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Dominic Connor is a partner in P&D. He teaches C++ in the CQF program and has been recruiting for quant positions. Based on London, UK, Dominic is well known in the quantitative finance community, both via his work as a headhunter and a prolific poster on the Wilmott community. Dominic has been a frequent contributor on Quantnet.org forum. We'd like to thank Dominic for taking the time to sit down for an interview with Quantnet.org. Thanks, Dominic!
Can you give us a brief bio?
Paul Wilmott & I started P&D recruitment about three years ago. Before that I'd been a CIO for a brokerage firm in fixed income, having worked at a variety of IBs. I'm married with two kids, live... [Read More]
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EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Tim Grant of UBS |
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Tim Grant is a Managing Director and Head of UBS Delta Americas at UBS Investment Bank. Tim has taken a leading role at UBS in a quest to dispel the myths surrounding the role of the quantitative skill set in sales and trading today. In an exclusive interview with Quantnet.org, Tim spoke about his work at UBS, his personal hobbies and shared advices for Quantnet.org members.
With his busy schedule at UBS, Tim has generously donated his time to finish this Quantnet.org exclusive interview. On behalf of Quantnet.org staff and members, we'd like to thank Tim for taking the time to answer our interview questions. Thanks Tim!
Can you give us a brief bio?
I joined the UBS graduate training program in 1999 in London and after a short period in international bond sales moved to the UBS Delta group within... [Read More]
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JP Morgan designated Baruch up as target school for Sales & Trading, Investment Banking |
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Thursday Nov. 8 marked a monumental day for Baruch students. It was the first time that a major investment bank has designated Baruch College as target school for recruitment in investment banking and sales and trading. JP Morgan came to the Baruch campus to give a thrilling presentation about the internship opportunities within their Investment Banking and Sales and Trading divisions. Baruch students were excited for the chance to impress JP Morgan recruiters and eagerly awaited the event. The room was packed with students eager to learn more about the prestigious firm. The event featured six distinguished JP Morgan employees, including multiple recent Baruch graduates.
The presentation started with a video of JP Morgan analysts, each expressing the benefits and responsibilities of working in their respective jobs. The video was... [Read More]
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Baruch Financial Engineering Student wins $50,000 in 2007 Broker’ Trading Olympiad |
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 Konstantinos Tsahas is not exactly typical of the students enrolled in Baruch College’s elite Masters program in Financial Engineering. For one thing, Konstantinos, known as “Gus,” is not looking to land a high paying position in finance with Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, or Citigroup. Been there, done that.
Gus once worked for a major finance firm. These days he is a contractor and the owner-manager of a company that specializes in technical construction. He’s also an independent spirit. “I’m not interested in working for anyone,” he says flatly. His company, Tarsis Electronic, based in Long... [Read More]
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Baruch prepares graduate students for careers in quant |
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Compared to other programs in the nation, Baruch's MS in Financial Engineering (MFE)* is actually a more competitive and more intense program. The program was started in 2002 and for the past two years, Baruch has accepted only 25 percent of applicants, compared to UC Berkeley which accepted 38 percent. In November of 2003, before the program had graduated any students, Baruch was ranked 24th out of 38 programs in the U.S. and Canada.
Quantitative analysts, or quant, have a daunting challenge. They design and implement mathematical models to price derivatives, to gauge risk or to predict market movements. A quant is not only expected to know about the underlying security such as options or credit derivatives, but is also expected to know how to mathematically predict their behavior and create a trading program than can capitalize on it. This involves having a deep knowledge of finance, mathematics and programming. A person who has interest in all three areas is a good... [Read More]
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Baruch's MS in Financial Engineering: small investment, big rewards |
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 Everyone from derivatives traders to hedge fund managers want to predict financial market outcomes. Who wouldn't bet on a sure thing? The reality is that no one can really guarantee where the stock market is headed. But don't think people aren't trying.
Financial engineers are the folks that just might figure it out. They design sophisticated financial models used for both forecasting and valuing the growing variety and complexity of investment instruments, like derivative options and futures. Companies are shelling out six-digit salaries and hefty signing bonuses to master's students with the quantitative aptitude and computer programming acumen necessary to succeed in this niche job market. The Master in Science in Financial Engineering program at Baruch not only maintains an up-to-date interdisciplinary curriculum, but also provides students... [Read More]
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Baruch Student Wins $25,000 in 2006 Trading Olympiad |
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 Bharath Govindarajan, a first-year student in Baruch’s Master of Science in Financial Engineering program, earned second place in the Interactive Brokers Collegiate Trading Olympiad. The ten-week Olympiad, which ran from January to March 2006, required participants to develop algorithmic computer trading models to buy and sell U.S. stocks, options, futures, currencies, and bonds, starting with a hypothetical investment of $100,000
Bharath, who lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, came to America in June 2005 from Madras, India, where he already had a degree in mechanical engineering and work experience as a programmer analyst. He had high praise for his Baruch experience so far: “Baruch was my first choice for graduate study,” he said, “due to the applied nature of the program and excellent faculty. The skills and theories I learned in my MS in... [Read More]
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