u/2DTurbulence

Hi all,

I am transitioning from a math-probability background into finance (with a focus on stochastic analysis). I am applying for a position in global asset management.

I was wondering if you can direct me to some books that are heavy on math. One book I found is "Mathematical Asset Management" by Thomas Höglund.

Do you recommend doing any online courses? Or should I just stick to doing textbook exercises? I see the CFA has many courses.

Also do you have any advice on the transition from math academic background into finance and asset management?

Thank you

Currently many companies use Workdays as the platform for job applications. One big issue is that each company develops their website and so one has to repeatedly fill in multiple applications answering similar questions (e.g. address, work experience, gender, disability status etc).

Linkedin has already developed a "Easy apply" step.

I was wondering if anybody has heard whether Linkedin has any plans to expand on this and allow companies to make longer applications, where a lot of repetive information gets automatically filled by Linkedin.

That way we will have a Universal profile.

Thanks

I am sure you have heard this concern too about having to repeatedly answer questions.

I wonder if you have heard whether Workday is planning to come up with some secure creation of a profile that users can use to fill in multiple applications.

I understand that the main concern is privacy since every company has their own Workday-platform. So I am curious if there are other platforms out there that have solved this issue or is there some fundamental difficulty in security/privacy.

The new "Obsession" movie's plot is basic but very interesting: a guy uses some wish-box to have a girl like him back. It ends up being a horror movie, but it beautifully shows the logical implications of wishing someone to love us back: we end up distorting the person we love. They are no longer an independent person with their own goals and dreams.

Do you think that the "friendzone" fallacy is often a difficulty to carry out the actual implications of our desires? It forgets that asking for a person to love us back has the unintended consequenes of distorting their overall personallity.

I thought it was an interesting point of view from the movie.