Global Demand for Financial Engineers

Two decades ago, only a handful of Wall Street specialists needed the mathematical knowledge to create pricing algorithms and risk curves. Today's global financial transactions and rapid advances in technology have led to a critical demand for professionals who can quantify, assess, price and forecast increasingly complex financial outcomes. This has led to the development of an important new field - Financial Engineering.

Placement Opportunities for Financial Engineering Graduates

Career categories

Risk Manager
Generally speaking, a Risk Manager is in charge of the process of measuring or assessing risk and developing strategies to manage it by using traded financial instruments. Strategies include transferring the risk to another party, avoiding the risk, reducing the negative effect of the risk, and accepting partial or all of a particular risk.

Associated positions:
Risk Analyst; Risk Administrator; Risk Associate; Credit Analyst; Quantitative Risk Management; Credit Risk Specialist; Credit Quantitative Specialist; Risk Modeler; Associate Risk Controller

Investment Bankers
Investment Bankers raise money for a company, through a stock or bond offering and handle larger sums that need investing especially via special investments such as derivatives (swaps, etc); also it includes mergers, divestitures and other restructuring of companies.

Associated positions:
Investment Banking Analyst; Investment Banking Associates; M & A Analyst; Operation Manager

Asset Managers
Asset Managers are responsible for the process of money managing for individuals, typically via stocks, bonds and/or cash equivalents according to specific stated objectives or investments styles.

Associated positions:
Portfolio Manager; Compliance Officer; Compliance Analyst; Portfolio Analyst; Equity Analyst; Portfolio Administrator; Product Advisor

Proprietary Trading
Proprietary Trading is trading the firm's own funds. Stocks, bonds, options, commodities, or other items are some typical instruments. It makes a market in the stocks and bonds and provides liquidity to the markets.

Associated positions:
Proprietary Trading Analyst; Trading Desk Support; Trading Business Analyst; Algorithmic Trading

Derivative Product Development
Derivative Product Development includes creating, pricing, marketing, delivering structured product solutions and OTC derivatives solutions to clients, and positioning the above structured and OTC product solutions with a wider portfolio context.

Associated positions:
Derivative Product Specialist; Structured Product Specialist; Derivatives Processing Analyst; Equity Derivatives Analyst; Structures Product Manager; Structurer; Derivatives Product Sales; Solution Manager

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