Career Talk: Quantitative Finance with Christian Kahl, Fincad

The Skeptic's Guide to Investment Management - by InvestOrama

This is an interview about Careers in Quant Finance with Christian Kahl, MD, Head of Product Strategy and Client Service at Fincad. Fincad is a leading provider of advanced valuation risk solutions for derivatives and fixed income analytics.

Christian holds a PhD in Maths and his career spans 20 years in various leadership roles in quantitative finance.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Career Talk: Quant Finance w. Christian Kahl, Fincad

00:17 Introducing Christian and Fincad 02:10 From Maths studies to Quant in finance

03:29 The evolution of quantitative finance education

04:43 The diversity in quant careers

07:37 Christian's approach to recruiting Quants

QUOTES

"Back in those days, a lot of people entered the domain of quantitative finance from a PhD background in mathematics and physics. Part of which is the fact that there wasn't a formal education in financial mathematics, quantitative finance, and definitely a lot less than what we've seen today."

"Quantitative finance is a term very widely used across the industry. There are quantitative analysts that sit on the sell side of trading floors writing quantitative libraries in C plus; there are quants in hedge funds supporting various forms of trading activity, trying to get an edge on the market; there are also quantitative analysts in various forms, across risk departments advisory boards, and so forth."

"Client communication is a core aspect of day to day activity [in my team], which somewhat lessens the burden of deep technical skills. It requires us to strike a balance of communication skills as well as technical education."

"I'm a great fan of hiring for talent and potential. And what I'm looking out for in a candidate is a curiosity in mathematics and the skills to learn new things."

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