Quant Risk and Regulations - a potpourri of multiple disciplines
Mid-90s witnessed the influx of Physics and Maths PhDs to Wall Street in large number. The likes of Goldman, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley would make beelines to the pristine campuses of Columbia, Harvard and Wharton to hire their Quant PhDs as associates to do the complex Maths behind Derivative models. Many of the academically oriented quants (Maths and Physics PhDs) decided to take a shot at this new-found career option with the I-banks to try out what they learnt in the classrooms...
