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CPeters, good luck with your spring semester. I think it will be your toughest, but it's good that you are progressively increasing your course load. That should help, because you're going to find things to be muchhh different than Calc I. Good Luck!

Is anyone using/used the RiskMetrics RM2006 forecasting model? (http://www.riskmetrics.com/risk_management/rm2006.html) For the next few weeks I have to learn it and compare backtests using it to the RiskMetrics RM1994. RM2006 is supposed to better capture volatility clustering and fat...

I'm all for bluntness from people who are informed about the quant industry, but this is a ridiculous post. How old are you? It's a little too passive aggresive for my taste.

Hey ChristopherPeters, I was in a similar spot as you. I started in econ and ended up staying a fifth year of undergrad to study more math, but I had taken a bit more math than it sounds like you have. It's a LONG stretch (the five year undergrad) but you're making a great choice. Even if...

What a dumb article. If the author has to use Kenneth Griffin and Eddie Lampert, both undergrad economics grads, as examples of "quants forgoeing MBAs for quick riches" (paraphrasing), her argument seems like a bith of a stretch.

I actually sent in a deposit for the masters in financial economics at Toronto a month ago, but the more I read online, the more convinced I am that the math/stats M.S. would be the better choice. The major problem I am having is, as I said, that of the 9 courses I would take for the MS, only 2...

H.B.Sc. Financial Modelling These are relatively new program but I think the curriculum is a good mix of applied math and computer science. The business school at Western, (Ivey), does pretty well in rankings. http://www.westerncalendar.uwo.ca/2008/pg1340.html...

HI everyone, I'm new to these forums and have found it to be a pretty dauting task to sort through all the info provided. Right now I'm trying to decide between two programs I have been admitted to. A M.S. in Mathematics and Statistics at Georgetown, and a Masters in Financial Economics...

just in case you dont get my post in the thread, you said Canadian banks are smaller. You're from Montreal? Where do you work and where do you get your info?!! I posted: I don't know where you get your info on Canadian banks being smaller. Maybe you could clarify: smaller than what? And by...

Canadian Banks Are Smaller? I don't know where you get your info on Canadian banks being smaller. Maybe you could clarify: smaller than what? And by what measure? I'd say that opposite is actually true. Because the big 5 Canadian banks are protected by charter legislation they don't face...