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2. 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.

3. Monte Carlo methods in finance - Wikipedia

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   A typical application of VaR is in investment banking, where the bank holds economic “risk capital” corresponding to the estimated number; see Financial risk management § Banking. VaR is also used in portfolio risk management , where, as above, simulation allows the fund manager to estimate losses at a given horizon and confidence level ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Financial analyst - Wikipedia

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   Financial analysts in the investment banking departments of securities or banking firms often work in teams, analyzing the future prospects of companies, and selling shares to the public for the first time via an initial public offering (IPO), or issuing bonds; this task is often identical to that of a securities analyst.