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by menaerus 502 days ago
People developing statistical models that are excercising the financial market at scale are the quants. These people don't come from financial degree background.
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WJW 502 days ago
By and large they don't come from a software development background either though. It's all math and physics PhDs.
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menaerus 502 days ago
Exactly. My point was rather that (formal) financial degree background isn't quite the necessity. Quite the contrary in practice I think.
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