OpenQuant Newsletter - Edition #26
Quant Jobs & Internships, Upcoming Events, Puzzles and More!
Hello, fellow Quants!
Welcome to our weekly newsletter, where we share the latest jobs/internships, educational opportunities, and upcoming events in quantitative finance.
Here’s what we have on this week’s agenda:
Internships
Full-Time Jobs
Upcoming Events
Educational Resources
Quant Puzzle
Our Top Internships
✨ Global Atlantic Financial Group - Quantitative Investment Intern | a firm that offers a broad range of retirement, life, and re-insurance products.
✨ Garda Capital Partners - Markets Analyst Intern, Commodities | an asset management firm specializing in global alternative investment strategies.
✨ Garda Capital Partners - Quantitative Development Intern, Equities | an asset management firm specializing in global alternative investment strategies.
Our Top Full-Time Positions
✨ Geneva Trading - Quantitative Trader | a leading proprietary trading firm with a history of consistent success in the listed derivatives markets.
✨ Citadel - Global Quantitative Strategies, Quantitative Researcher | an alternative investment manager working on behalf of the world's preeminent institutions.
✨ Man Group - Quantitative Researcher, Portfolio Monetization | an active investment management business listed on the London Stock Exchange.
✨ Barclays - AVP Quantitative Analyst, Equities | a British multinational universal bank, headquartered in London, England.
Upcoming Events
📆 Quant Insights Conference: Machine Learning in Quant Finance | an exclusive conference focusing on the latest insights in machine learning in quant finance.
Educational Resources
🚀 Probability Theory Course Notes | notes from a course covering mathematical probability at the measure-theoretic level, mainly aimed towards PhD students.
🚀 Machine Learning for Asset Managers | a book that introduces machine learning (ML) tools that can help asset managers discover economic and financial theories.
🚀 Python Design Patterns | a blog covering many common Python programming software design patterns.
Weekly Quant Puzzles
Question #1 - Probability
You take a standard shuffled deck of cards and keep flipping cards over until the first ace appears, which is card #14. What's the probability the next card is the eight of hearts?
Quote of the Week
“The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it’s comforting; because it’s so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so.” - Michael Lewis, Flash Boys