Welcome to WFS Quant Finance
The Quant Finance portal contains the following resources:
- The Brainteaser presentations, as presented every other Wednesday.
- Our Quant Team’s research reports.
- Application advice and key resources.
- Information on our sponsors for the university year of 2022/23.
What is Quant Finance?
Interested in maths, statistics or programming?
Then you might want to explore the world of quantitative finance.
Quant finance focuses on the use of mathematical modelling and large datasets to analyse financial data. This can be applied to many areas of finance, such as options pricing, risk management strategies, trading and more.
Roles inside quant finance can range a fair bit; you can work as a quant researcher, analyst or developer, amongst others.
A range of firms offer quant finance roles, from quant divisions inside large banks, to prop trading firms or hedge funds. Generally they target anyone with a quantitative background, and having a Master’s or PhD can often work in your advantage.
We’ve put together a large collection of resources, application advice & tips and list of firms offering summer internships, available from clicking the button below.
How can you get involved?
Quant Finance operates under the wider umbrella of Warwick Finance Societies. On a whole WFS is able to facilitate some of the Universities best insights and opportunities within the Financial sector. They will have multiple events each week covering different areas in finance and offer an unparalleled opportunity to network with likeminded students and professionals.
To get more involved with the Quant Finance division and/or the wider WFS community please visit the main WFS portal, as well as purchasing your own membership through the SU. We look forward to seeing you at some of the events and hope you find your place within WFS!
Research Reports
Our Quant Team have put together research reports on various topics. The first research report is a statistical Analysis of a few popular Drinking Games.
Application Advice, Tips and Resources
Various firms offer internships, generally over summer, but there are a couple of spring programmes and longer placements available. Additionally note that some are only open to MSc/PhD students, while some are specifically for undergraduates.
We have compiled a list of available quantitative finance and related internships, together with length of programme and entry requirements.
Brainteasers
We run biweekly brainteaser events which go over questions typically covered in Sales & Trading/ Markets and Quant based interviews.
