Professional career guide from the Vault Career Library covering bond fundamentals, statistics, derivatives (with detailed Black-Scholes calculations, fixed income securities, equity markets, currency and commodity markets, risk management.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
maybe good for MBA,
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This review is from: Vault Guide to Advanced Finance & Quantitative Interviews (Paperback)
The book might be good for someone with MBA as a general review but definitelly not for someone preparing for quant job/interview.For that purpose "Heard on the Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews" is at least 100 times better.
28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Embarrassing,
By Gustav Trump (Sweden) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Vault Guide to Advanced Finance & Quantitative Interviews (Paperback)
I am not quite sure who is supposed to read this book. I am about to finish my M.Sc (Industrial management and engineering) and almost everything (98%) in this book was known to me.
Regarding all the errors, I stopped marking them at about the 20th page. It is really terrible how there can be so many factual errors in one book (by far the worst book I have seen at least). E.g. the part on CAPM where it says that beta must be a nonnegative number. Please do not buy this book, at least not until the second edition has come out!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent, Broad review for Quant Interviews,
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This review is from: Vault Guide to Advanced Finance & Quantitative Interviews (Paperback)
If you're preparing for an interview for a job as a "quant," FI/MBS/options trader, or risk manager, then this book is a great review of the subject matter. The chapters review bond math, statistics, derivatives, fixed income, equities, currencies, and risk management. The book focuses exclusively on finance, and not on the structure of the financial industry, typical jobs, or interview skills. However, this isn't a drawback -- there are other Vault guides that cover these areas.Overall, the book is certainly more technical & mathematical than most interview guides (except perhaps for "Heard on the Street" by Tim Crack at MIT), so be prepared to review the Black-Scholes partial differential equation. Despite the complexity of the subject matter, the author's explanations make the material accessible, and her explanations were pithy, clear, and often accompanied by helpful diagrams. My only complaints are that (1) the book doesn't include any review of accounting, which does come up in finance occasionally, and (2) there are just a few mistakes (but not too many). Overall, I found this book to be well worth the time & money I invested in it.
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asset path, index multiplier, put payoff, taxable equivalent yield, taxable yield, featuring firm profiles, complete online resource, residual tranche, expected future spot prices, key rate durations, bond fundamentals, payoff diagram, floating rate payments, current spot rate, continuous dividend, yield curve shifts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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