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It's like creating new financial products depending on each client s financing needs. It involves a lot of departments such as legal, marketing and trading. It's like trying to solve new optimization problem depending on each client....

Yes I did a lot of research before accepting the offer at Cass. I knew what I wanted to study from the begining and they had the perfect match (numerical analysis and econometrics) . My background BBA-Finance/quantitative methods. 2 years experience at CDP capital in Montreal in an index and...

ah Thank you ! Anyways , as I say you'll get rewarded for your hard work one day or another. it's only a matter of time. I have a friend who works around 100 h per week studying and working. He is only 25 and bought his first appartement (without the help of his parents...). ...and it's only the...

networking is very important..sure you should read books !! good luck

Is it a compliment ? I'm both from Canada and Morocco....

Yes I have a suggestion ! If you can try to talk to actual traders around a beer ! I learned a lot of things just hanging out with them. Nahed

Ilya, I make no difference between someone who has the actuarial exams or not...I make no difference between someone with a CFA or not.....The only thing that matters for me is how well would you do in your job..I see and work with people with such qualifications everyday and beleive me some of...

Hello ! I'm going to Cass B-School Next year in Msc Quantitative finance. I Want to know what people think about the program (specially head-hunters)! job prospects in the city etc.... Nahed

One word ==> Very Childish :D You are funny Stanford Grad

Welcome to IEFC : with no co-signer up to 20K$ with a co-signer you can Borrow more

1 Year for the long futures..5 years no no..too long 3 months Long Vix

I would go long Futures on the S&P500.....

I agree with you pardasani... We all know that there is a negative correlation between gold and the USD and the correlation is higher (in absolute terms) when the USD is down... I'm asking myself...Is gold still a safe haven ? or the market is over reacting ? Will the past repeat itself ? What...

The thing is that everybody agrees that gold is a "safe Haven" and there is a big consensus now on the market that investing in gold in particular (commo in general) is a good thing. Yes the money has to go somewhere now it is commo , 3 or 4 years ago it was the abs mbs and credit derivatives...

Gold at 1010 $ today, it just seems insane ..prices are reacting on bad news and not on fundamentals (not that good by the way..) . Is it time to short commodities ?

Yes following Moody's credit rating update : (source:Bloomberg) Lehman had its long-term credit rating affirmed at A1 by Moody's Investors Service earlier today. The rating company lowered its outlook on the company to stable from positive.

Note : I think that the S&P500 might delete BSC from the index ( bsc s weight is 6 bps of the SPX ) which should push the price lower since indexers will have to sell all the bsc s positions.....

either he didn't know what he was talking about, which is a little bit scary or he knew and didn't want to give negative comments that would harm the stock price. In both cases ==> he does nothing to boost the market confidence... I'm trying to understand why the S&P 500 is down again...The...

The problem is that nobody wants to trade with them anymore they lost clients confidence...they are loosing their clients...I don't see an upside fot BSC unless JP decides to buy it.

BSC : SHARES DROP 9% AT 9:32 A.M. (source : Bloomberg ) . JP Morgan and the NY fed will provide funding to BSC for up to 28 days. ... I think BSC is a target for an acquisition but who would buy it ? JP-Morgan ?

No problem at all, maybe delay the admission decision... you'll receive another confirmation by Baruch for the third letter.. It happened to me too:) Good Luck.

I see one reason you submitted your application before the third recommendation letter was sent ? is that right ?

No I'm not Desi..I did not know what it is ! checked wikipedia. I'm Moroccan

About the MBA....... MBA is like a BBA ( Bachelor in business administration ) with basically the same courses but little bit advanced. The courses give you an Overview of how a company works and you can at the end specialise in Finance, accounting, HR etc.....I did a BBA , it's true that you...

You don't need a FE degree to be a good Stock Analyst..what you need is , as Andy said, a background in reading and analysing financial statements. I know here at CDP (Montreal) excellent stock analysts with only a BS-finance and Accountants with a Msc in Finance.. I would recommend a Msc in...

If you like the cold weather, the snow and dresssing like an astronaut (just kidding :D) !!! Why not... ! It is the case for Montreal don't know much about Toronto. We did hear about some job cuts here in Montreal from Canadian and non-Canadian banks, but not as important as in US...

Does anybody here use python ? Nahed

No it is not the same, different masters . Nahed

Here is an interesting view on Obama by Shelby Stelle : Bill Moyers Journal . Shelby Steele | PBS I'm for Obama Nahed

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Hi Andy !! (i added the pic after my posting ;)) Our main activity is equity index replication (Cash and Synthetic) and find solutions for the indexes that are difficult to replicate for reasons like low liquidity of stocks, abscence of futures contrats on certain indices :-k...... We are also...

Hello from Montreal, I wanted to thank all the quantnet members... the threads are very helpful. The forum helped me a lot when making my school choices. I applied to the MFE at Baruch this week for Fall 08...hoping to have a positive answer. I'm actually working in Montreal at CDP Capital (...

Hello from Montreal, I wanted to thank all the quantnet members... the threads are very helpful. The forum helped me a lot when making my school choices. I applied to the MFE at Baruch this week...hoping to have a positive answer. I'm actually working in Montreal at CDP Capital (...