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Message: <blockquote data-quote="qdogg" data-source="post: 170401" data-attributes="member: 30816">Except for the hardcore quant shops that only hire PhDs, "smaller / buy side investment firms" from a quant standpoint generally don't do anything that's all that much fancier than factor modelingWhat's more important to them (based on my experience doing it now) is programming skills and finance knowledge-- regressing historical forward returns against combinations of accounting statement factors all day, and that means substantial comfort with R (for the regressions) and a CFA charter (to understand what all the factors mean), not partial differential equations and stochastic calculus</blockquote>