Financial Quantitative Analysts
Financial Quantitative Analysts
Career outlook for
Financial Quantitative Analysts
What's it like?
Develop quantitative techniques to inform securities investing, equities investing, pricing, or valuation of financial instruments. Develop mathematical or statistical models for risk management, asset optimization, pricing, or relative value analysis.
Working conditions
Tasks
- Develop core analytical capabilities or model libraries, using advanced statistical, quantitative, or econometric techniques.
- Provide application or analytical support to researchers or traders on issues such as valuations or data.
- Research or develop analytical tools to address issues such as portfolio construction or optimization, performance measurement, attribution, profit and loss measurement, or pricing models.
Top Skills
- Mathematics.
- Critical Thinking.
- Reading Comprehension.
- Complex Problem Solving.
- Active Listening.
- Speaking.
- Judgment.
- Decision Making.
- Active Learning.
- Writing.
- Persuasion.
- Systems Analysis.
- Systems Evaluation.
- Coordination.
- Instructing.
- Learning Strategies.
- Monitoring.
- Social Perceptiveness.
- Time Management.
- Programming.
- Management of Financial Resources