Gennadiy wrote:Dnepr wrote:Что же касается других областей финансов, то здесь ситуация хуже. Investment management обычно область народа с опытом работы в финансах. Единственное возможное исключение -- это bonds, где требуется умение и желание считать. Иногда можно попасть в derivatives, но там всё-таки больше опытного народа.
А разве там MBA нужен? Скорее MSF.
А по теме - у нас достаточное количество програмистов перебрались именно в derivatives, bonds, rates. Конечно у них был опыт этого дела с IT стороны, но я не вижу чем MBA может помочь в таком деле как например derivatives. Там считать надо. Много.
People with very strong quantitative skills are a relatively small part of an investment bank or money manager, even in fixed income, derivatives, etc. Usually they build models and have strong programming/modeling skills, frequently they have PhDs, MSF. They generally belong to the so called 'backoffice' which means they do not bring revenue or deal with clients directly.
For the rest, so called front office or client facing staff, MBAs are much more common although strong quantitative skills (not at PhD level) are pretty common as well.
Someone with a quant/IT background can easily switch to finance after MBA. As people noted the ranking of your MBA program will determine the caliber of companies that recruit at your school. Most opportunities will be in investment banking and sales and trading (fixed income and equities). Money management is possible as well but they need fewer people and do look for some experience.