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Hello all,
My name is Miles. I have been trolling this site for some time now and decided to post now that I have a good and realistic idea of what I want to do. I am currently a senior in my last semester from a non-target school with a 3.95/4 GPA. My degree will be a BS in Finance (Honors). I have obviously taken the slew of finance courses and general business courses. Other relevant courses I have taken is Calculus 1-2 and an intro to programming class taught in Java.
I wish to pursue a job in Financial Risk Management. Like most, I loved my derivatives class and want to pursue a career pricing and trading options to hedge risk. I know most people here want to be a quant, but at the moment I don't see that as a realistic goal seeing that I still need to take a semester and summer of math classes and learn C++. I currently have no relevant work experience except I do have an interview for an aggressive asset management boutique in 2 weeks.
Thus, my main question is pursuing a MFE program geared towards risk management and derivatives pricing still my best option even if I don't believe that I have the crazy math skills to be a quant? Should I pursue the FRM?
I understand that risk manager can mean a lot of things, so here is ideally what I would like to do in simplistic terms:
1: Calculate the firms exposure to a certain risk thru monte carlo simulations (rates, commodities, etc)
2: Construct the appropriate derivative product
3: Price the product
4: Execute the strategy
I have no preference as to where I work (bank, energy firm, multinational corp, etc).
Any tips you can offer would be great. I know I still need to take Calc 3, Linear Algebra, Diff Eqs, PDE's, Probability, and Numerical Methods, C++. But, I am graduating a half semester early to get a jumpstart on the coursework. My GRE quant section will obviously also be crucial to successful admission to an MFE program, but one area I feel like I have leg up on competition is being a native English speaker.
If I don't get the internship I am interviewing for, I will have some free time. Would you recommend taking the online C++ for Financial Engineering course?
My name is Miles. I have been trolling this site for some time now and decided to post now that I have a good and realistic idea of what I want to do. I am currently a senior in my last semester from a non-target school with a 3.95/4 GPA. My degree will be a BS in Finance (Honors). I have obviously taken the slew of finance courses and general business courses. Other relevant courses I have taken is Calculus 1-2 and an intro to programming class taught in Java.
I wish to pursue a job in Financial Risk Management. Like most, I loved my derivatives class and want to pursue a career pricing and trading options to hedge risk. I know most people here want to be a quant, but at the moment I don't see that as a realistic goal seeing that I still need to take a semester and summer of math classes and learn C++. I currently have no relevant work experience except I do have an interview for an aggressive asset management boutique in 2 weeks.
Thus, my main question is pursuing a MFE program geared towards risk management and derivatives pricing still my best option even if I don't believe that I have the crazy math skills to be a quant? Should I pursue the FRM?
I understand that risk manager can mean a lot of things, so here is ideally what I would like to do in simplistic terms:
1: Calculate the firms exposure to a certain risk thru monte carlo simulations (rates, commodities, etc)
2: Construct the appropriate derivative product
3: Price the product
4: Execute the strategy
I have no preference as to where I work (bank, energy firm, multinational corp, etc).
Any tips you can offer would be great. I know I still need to take Calc 3, Linear Algebra, Diff Eqs, PDE's, Probability, and Numerical Methods, C++. But, I am graduating a half semester early to get a jumpstart on the coursework. My GRE quant section will obviously also be crucial to successful admission to an MFE program, but one area I feel like I have leg up on competition is being a native English speaker.
If I don't get the internship I am interviewing for, I will have some free time. Would you recommend taking the online C++ for Financial Engineering course?
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