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Financial Quantitative Analysts

What they do:
Develop quantitative financial products used to inform individuals or financial institutions engaged in saving, lending, investing, borrowing, or managing risk. Investigate methods for financial analysis to create mathematical models used to develop improved analytical tools or advanced financial investment instruments.
On the job, you would:
  • Apply mathematical or statistical techniques to address practical issues in finance, such as derivative valuation, securities trading, risk management, or financial market regulation.
  • Devise or apply independent models or tools to help verify results of analytical systems.
  • Research or develop analytical tools to address issues such as portfolio construction or optimization, performance measurement, attribution, profit and loss measurement, or pricing models.

Knowledge

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Skills

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Abilities

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Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Object or component oriented development software
  • C++
  • Microsoft Visual C#
Analytical or scientific software
  • Insightful S-PLUS
  • SAS software
Data base user interface and query software
  • Microsoft Access
  • Structured query language SQL

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Job Outlook

Bright Outlook
New job opportunities are very likely in the future.
Salary
$61,160
per year, on average
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