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2. Rocket science (finance) - Wikipedia

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   "Rocket science" in finance is a metaphor for activity carried out by specialised quantitative staff to provide detailed output from mathematical modeling and computational simulations to support investment decisions. Their work depends on use of complex mathematical models implemented in sophisticated IT environments. [1] [2]

3. Quantitative analysis (finance) - Wikipedia

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   In sales and trading, quantitative analysts work to determine prices, manage risk, and identify profitable opportunities.Historically this was a distinct activity from trading but the boundary between a desk quantitative analyst and a quantitative trader is increasingly blurred, and it is now difficult to enter trading as a profession without at least some quantitative analysis education.

4. Financial engineering - Wikipedia

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   Financial engineering is a multidisciplinary field involving financial theory, methods of engineering, tools of mathematics and the practice of programming. [3] It has also been defined as the application of technical methods, especially from mathematical finance and computational finance, in the practice of finance.

5. Professional certification in financial services - Wikipedia

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   The Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) is the "advanced financial planning" designation awarded by The American College of Financial Services. To secure the designation, applicants must have three years of full-time business experience within the preceding five years and must complete nine college-level courses; the award is also contingent ...

6. Financial modeling - Wikipedia

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   Financial modeling is the task of building an abstract representation (a model) of a real world financial situation. [1] This is a mathematical model designed to represent (a simplified version of) the performance of a financial asset or portfolio of a business, project , or any other investment.

7. What investors should look for as Wall Street prices in a new ...

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   In a Financial Times op-ed days before the shooting on Monday, market veteran Ed Yardeni cautioned against assuming that lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are the main drivers of the economy and markets.

8. Mathematical finance - Wikipedia

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   Mathematical finance, also known as quantitative finance and financial mathematics, is a field of applied mathematics, concerned with mathematical modeling in the financial field. In general, there exist two separate branches of finance that require advanced quantitative techniques: derivatives pricing on the one hand, and risk and portfolio ...

9. Netflix stock recovers from losses after technical glitches ...

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   Netflix recently beat Wall Street expectations across every major financial metric in its third quarter results on Oct. 17, with shares surging to all-time highs as many analysts call Netflix the ...