{"id":10772,"date":"2009-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"desperado-quants-go-for-gambling-and-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/desperado-quants-go-for-gambling-and-defence.html","title":{"rendered":"Desperado quants go for gambling and defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>eFinancialCareers UK &#8211; Times are still not good for junior quants and mathematical PhDs who aspire to work in investment banks. With banks pulling back from complexity, there&rsquo;s less need for their talents. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> Mark Davis, a professor of maths at Imperial College, says lots of his students still want to work in finance, but they&rsquo;re also being forced to contemplate defence, pharmaceutical work, and the consultancy branches of accountancy firms. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> One recruiter says quants who can&rsquo;t get into financial services are also to be found in &ldquo;systematic gambling&rdquo; at the likes of Betfair and Ladbrokes, where they analyze data in the same way hedge funds do. <\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/news.efinancialcareers.co.uk\/newsandviews_item\/newsItemId-19428\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eFinancialCareers UK &#8211; Times are still not good for junior quants and mathematical PhDs who aspire to work in investment banks. With banks pulling back from complexity, there&rsquo;s less need for their talents. Mark Davis, a professor of maths at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12759,12761,998,12358,314,894,11708,12763,831,8677,12765,12762,12760,12764,10400],"class_list":["post-10772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-accountancy-firms","tag-betfair","tag-complexity","tag-efinancialcareers","tag-finance","tag-financial-services","tag-hedge-funds","tag-imperial-college","tag-investment-banks","tag-ladbrokes","tag-maths","tag-phds","tag-quants","tag-recruiter","tag-talents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}