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Stats Hons.

Lol...Doing the Maths Skills Program...pfft Another useful link: http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~nss/tt/ Iruka (and other Maths ppl), doing Maths Honours next year?

MATH marks out.

More clearly, if you do these majors you cannot claim to have any highly developed skills which would make you employable. Being skilled in a particular area is a good foundation for further and higher order learning and development. (IMO, the only thing interesting about marketing are the...

Re: Usyd vs. UNSW vs. UQ, which one is better for econ? UNSW is probably the best to secure a job as there is some emphasis on financial economics both in teaching and research.

It's recommended for 2 main reasons: 1) You need to learn more maths (than usual) to prepare for actuarial courses. Traditionally the actuarial exams were usually taken by those working and who had already finished a Maths degree, so these are shortcut subjects. I think the UK Institute of...

I mean a Big 4 bank, eg CBA. I plan on doing a Masters in Quantitative Finance rather than CFA.

The main issue is that the other universities are more competitive in attracting the better candidates. UTS has its stars in law and part-time accounting cadets, but those from UNSW and USyd are clearly a cut above those at UTS (in terms of quality and quantity). Also, these lawyers/cadets at...

Commerce/Science (Finance and Maths) - UNSW

I was wondering if any of guys know any people, or have actually moved from a big 4 bank to an IB? I'd like to work in sales and trading (my background has been in risk management at an IB, and middle office and front office quanting at a big 4).

You need to do higher degrees (Hons, masters, etc) to get sufficiently into financial maths. 1 subject on option pricing will just scratch the surface.

You are forced to do an Economics major in BEc. Commerce is the more prestigious degree.

1) Most importantly, know your pure maths before doing any serious financial maths in your masters. 2) If possible, pick up some modelling/programming skills on the side, eg BEng. But this can be learnt on the job/thru a masters program. This is a relevant link...

Well, they're pitched up people with a certain background who can take advantage of it, ie, qualified people with the appropriate background, eg maths PhD but who hasn't done fin maths before. Basically, its best if you do a Maths degree before starting any financial maths. If we take the US as...

Yahoo Finance.

I'm not talking about high school boy's club only hiring their own kind. You got to face facts and accept that the stiff competition for jobs in finance is going to come from the good people, and they tend to come from selective schools and decent private schools (like SGS as mentioned)...

I'm taking about quant in Australia. People may have done PhD's in unrelated fields, eg physics, computer science, pure mathematics, etc. The masters is a quick way to pick up knowledge.

No, they're useful when ONCE you're working as a quant, not to enter quant (just like CFA). Uni's dont offer scholarships for coursework masters as they're usually self-funded (eg international students) or employer-sponsored. Grant money funds scholarships for research and high achievement...

I disagree. 1) A straight quant fin masters student can't compete for quant jobs when compared against Honours and PhD students who are their intellectual betters. 2) It's recognised within the Sydney quant community, which is enough once you've landed a quant job and need to do further...

Banks try to hire the best grads, and they a lot tend to come from UNSW since it has more selective-school people. This doesn't mean that UNSW provides the finance education. In the end, it's about the people, not the institution. On the contrary, I think the finance school at UNSW is pretty...