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People developing statistical models that are excercising the financial market at scale are the quants. These people don't come from financial degree background

People developing statistical models that are excercising the financial market at scale are the quants. These people don't come from financial degree background.

WJW 2y ago
By and large they don't come from a software development background either though. It's all math and physics PhDs.
- menaerus 2y ago
  Exactly. My point was rather that (formal) financial degree background isn't quite the necessity. Quite the contrary in practice I think.