Talking Tuesdays with Fancy Quant

Send us Fan Mail Being a Quant in the finance world is not all brains and riches as many think. Being able to talk openly about the industry hasn't been an easy task as I don't want to burn bridges and offend people, yet I feel it is important for those wanting to work in quantitative finance to really understand what you will face. This was originally a video I recorded a year ago howev...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wondered how to get ahead and develop a better career? Today Fancy Quant discusses starting a job, building relationship networks to help career advancement, and finally how and why to quit. This cycle of starting a new job, maintaining a current job, and ending the job will change frequency depending on career fit and career length. The higher you climb in a career...

Send us Fan Mail What does a corporate financial analyst do? I asked myself this question as I was going to school for my BBA in Finance however I never found an honest response. I thought it would be a boring job as many people seemed to be talking all about investment banking or IB as they liked to call it. I decided in undergrad that I would try and work on the trading side or the investment ba...

Send us Fan Mail Getting your first job after college (or graduate school) or always very hard. It seems like most students apply for hundreds of jobs and get very little feedback from employers. In this episode I discuss my failed attempts at getting a job after undergrad and then my continued failure as well as my short sprint of success. I learned a lot about resume writing and interviewing all...

Send us Fan Mail Being an introvert can be a challenge when you are surrounded by extroverts. Labels such as shy, anti-social, and narcissistic get thrown around as if you are a bad person. I read Susan Cain's "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" many years ago however the main message has stuck with me. In Western societies, communication and ext...

Send us Fan Mail My journey to becoming a quant (someone with math, stats, and computer science skills) was non-traditional. Most people are also shocked to find out that I hated secondary school and wasn't even sure I wanted to go to college. I wasn't the biggest fan of primary school either but looking back, I do miss the experience of primary school. College is where I really shined a...

Send us Fan Mail Quantitative finance is an industry that is mainly comprised of non-US workers. Many of them get graduate degrees in the US and become citizens in the long run though. Today I am discussing some of the cultural differences I have noticed over the years. These cultural differences are not good or bad, they are just differences. Learning to be accepting is important in all jobs but...

Send us Fan Mail In many technical industries there is a shortage of qualified talent. This can be simply called, "the education gap." In many industries there is a clear divide between those that excel and the rest. The education gap can also be seen from the miss match in messages between the industries who state, "there is an employee shortage" and the job seekers such as th...

Send us Fan Mail Managing your health as a quant can be challenging both physically and mentally. In this episode I will discuss some challenges I am facing and how I help solve them along with a few other solutions. Weight gain and pains from bad posture plague almost all office workers as we sit at our desks for the majority of our time. Anxiety, depression, and impostor syndrome are common ment...

Send us Fan Mail The YouTube channel, Fancy Quant, ran by Dimitri Bianco started a new segment called, Talking Tuesdays which is now becoming a podcast as well. The episodes will be a personal perspective on the finance and banking industry from the eyes of an insider on the quantitative side. Today's episode will cover in more details what Talking Tuesdays are, review the YouTube channel&apo...