Wall Street isn't run by morons. The quants own the trading floor. The Yale crowd owns private equity and investment banking. Why? Because private equity an

Wall Street isn't run by morons. The quants own the trading floor. The Yale crowd owns private equity and investment banking. Why? Because private equity and investment banking involve "literally talking to rich old white people" for a living. Hence they hire the sons of the friends of said old white relics to powwow with them. However, you can be absolutely sure that the quants pull in the big bucks. Trading pays far more than investment banking.