Areas of Work
- Trading strategy development
- Portfolio optimization
- Derivatives pricing and hedging: involves a lot of highly efficient (usually object-oriented) software development, advanced numerical techniques, and stochastic calculus
- Risk management: involves a lot of time series analysis, calibration, and backtesting
- Credit analysis
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