Welcome to Season 8 of Talking Tuesdays with Fancy Quant! This season I will bring in more guest speakers from the quantitative finance community to talk about data, business, math, stats, and their journey's through life.OVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.comSupport the show
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Building a Better Quant Community
This is the presentation I gave at the Quaint Quant Conference 2025. The goal of the conference is to bring together more people to share ideas and collaborate. I touch on some of the main groups of people in the quantitative finance community and what each group can do to build a better community. The four groups are outsiders, academics, students, and practitioners.Website:https://www.FancyQuantNation.comDiscord:https://discord.gg/8822pYKNrnReal Talk About MarketingAn Acxiom podcast where we discuss marketing made better, bringing you real...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson Discover how technology is reshaping our lives and livelihoods.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show
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Immigration and H1B - Quant View
As there has been some discussion around H1Bs and immigration, and a subscriber asked me to talk about it, here is my perspective.A few high points:- Immigration is a key part of America.- Great people should be allowed to immigrate and not just whoever decides they want to come.- The H1B system needs to match the number of people coming as well as a clear and simpler path to a green card.Support the show
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A Wall Street Chat with Patrick Zoro
I brought Patrick Zoro from Lehigh University on the channel to discuss jobs, hiring, program rankings, networking, and just to catch up with him on a personal note.Some interesting takeaways include how programs gather and report graduate income. For example, the data is self reported by the students and then self reported by the universities. Some universities have third partis that do the work to reduce over stating salaries while others directly report. Another interesting piece is that many students take internships or research work at the universities as a way to stay in the US while they find a full time quant job. Should we include these as employment in the reporting for rankings?Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson Discover how technology is reshaping our lives and livelihoods.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show
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Director of Admissions and Recruiting at CMU MSCF - Emily Wertz
There is a lot of confusion on how admissions is done at quant finance masters programs in the US. Every program will do it differently however today I got the opportunity to learn about the admissions process from one of the top programs (Carnegie Mellon University). Emily Wertz is the director of Admissions and Recruiting at CMU's Masters of Science in Computational Finance program and has worked there for over eight years. We cover:1) Academic Readiness2) Career Readiness3) Interpersonal SkillsEmily provides tips and some insight into how the applications are reviewed.For more information on CMU's program:https://www.cmu.edu/mscf/Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson Discover how technology is reshaping our lives and livelihoods.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show
The Talking Tuesdays Podcast is all about quantitative topics but mainly focused around quantitative finance, data science, machine learning, career development, and technical topics. Join me for some insight from a risk management professional on how the industry works and how to break in!
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