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I'd be curious to know how you got into quant finance if you'd be willing to share.

• lordnacho 5y ago
  Funnily enough a few people have written to me about that. I was a bit fortunate, I actually applied to be a derivatives trader out of uni. Which I did, but I ended up in a hedge fund, which was a type of firm I'd never heard of until the day I started working in one. I started reading a LOT of stuff about it. The mid-2000s were a bit of a golden age for hedge funds, and investors were just throwing money at them. I went to a lot of investment meetings where I wondered what on earth we'd said that was so attractive. At one point my boss in a derivs fund told me there was too much money, and that we needed to find something to do with it. By this time I'd read a bit about automated trading, and I figured some sort of strategy utilizing computers to trade would be the thing to do. So the boss decided to have me hire quants and devs to do this, and I've been in that area since. Pretty unique position to be honest, most people don't do it this way, and they don't get to just hire a team while in their mid 20s. Good learnings though.