Interviewed a fully qualified #actuary from the @SOActuaries professional body, who really impressed me!
It goes on to show that not all mathematically inspiring and charismatic blokes are dull at understanding the subtle qualitative aspects of business #risk and transactions.
Actually, I do offer my services as a recruiter aka professional headhunter and knowledge capital developer, in addition to teaching Talent Management at staff colleges across financial institutions
I often get twirled when I have to choose between Financial Engineers & Actuaries
Mostly, for Front Office Risk Management roles, Financial Engineers, Financial Mathematicians, and Quantitative Economics or Finance Risk, etc candidates get preference
For Middle Office and other Risk Sub-Silos Roles, Actuaries compete with other Quants coming from hard sciences
Well, in the 1970s and right up to the 1990s, risk related works were confined to auditing, internal controls, assurance and review.
The credit risk work at banks was done by qualitative bankers, who knew little or no mathematical modelling or econophysics.
But, that worked well
Only, after BASEL 2 came into existence, that we saw a mushrooming list of requests from HR Departments, to hire qualified risk managers with an understanding of Bank Financial Risk Management and Modelling, which is slightly different from Insurance Risk Management Science.
Most #actuaries work in Life or P&C Insurance Sectors, but, due to sheet paucity of talent,& the phenomenal growth in the financial services risk-related roles, quants, and physical science grads, that can compute or write codes have made their way into the #FRM profession
But, I always tell HR Departments and concerned front, back and middle offices, that bring their request to me, to consider a candidate based on the job description and not parody roles, they read on @efc_global or elsewhere.
For Risk Hedging, Product Development, Financial Computing, Advanced Financial Research or Mathematical Trading, Fis are better off by hiring Financial Engineering/Math students.
For Risk Pricing, Risk Reserving, Risk Model Development, Pension Fund Risk Management, and Employee Retirement Fund Management, they should hire an #Actuary or someone with an MSc in Actuarial Science.
For Bank Risk Management, it could be anyone with a decent degree in any of the following-> Money, Banking, Finance, Investments, Operations Research or Economics/Econometrics.
If the candidate has a specialized MSc in Quantitative Financial Risk, that is icing on the cake!
For #ERM and Internal Auditing and Controls related Operational Risk Review and Assurance roles, anywhere, you will be better off by hiring a candidate with a degree in Accounting or Auditing with professional accredited certification such as ACCA/ CA/CPA.
Maths is not Accounting
For roles outside the Financial Services, we see huge growth in the demand for ERM and even FRM Professionals, including Actuaries and Financial Engineers, etc.
I always advise my clients to hire people with a basic degree who can understand the business model, products processes
For General Purpose Risk Management jobs, either within or outside Insurance, have a look at the IRM Diploma offered by @irmglobal
This is good enough for basic training and knowledge of elevation.
Good Luck!
You are no longer secure after investing your or your parent's money in education
Because of these new trends of hiring and firing people under zero-hour contracts, agile working spaces setup during the #pandemic, working from remote location, and #AI/ML #robots replacing humans
And, if you are an Overseas Student, please don't get lured by the work permit, professional practise programs that offer industrial placement, and other visa extension nonsense, as we see in different jurisdictions.
There is no guarantee that you will find decent paid work
Already, a friend of mine, who is working as a registrar of programs at a Middle East-based university, is receiving tons of CVs a day, from respected university lecturers, and researchers from top western institutions.
I guess PhD Scholars are pre-empting sacking orders.
As I am growing older, I have started enjoying reading and appreciating certain aspects of the pessimistic philosophy of #Schopenhauer.
One has to read at least these philosophers to develop a broader understanding of society, logic and methods of enquiry-> 1. Hume 2. Descartes 3. Hegel 4. Marx 5. Schopenhauer 6. Kant 7. Wittgenstein 8. Berkeley 9. Isaiah Berlin 10. AJ Ayer 11. Anthony Kenny 12. Nietzsche
Of course, the list above is expandable.
I cannot write the names of all philosophers, logicians, and methodologists in one tweet.
Yes, Anthony Quinton, P.F. Strawson, Quinne, David Donaldson and Amartya Sen (Philosophy of Economics) can be added to the suggested reading list.
I have visited Singapore many times! this country is really a role model for all nations of the world, irrespective of size.
The size issue has been used by economists and development specialists to malign some of the most outstanding achievements of PAP Led by Lee Kuan Yew, who in my opinion was a true king philosopher.
Singapore is both small and efficient! But, its small size should not be used to downgrade its phenomenal growth in economic and anthropological terms!!
Carry-over-trades-#COT and #rollover of hedged positions using derivatives or bank loans provided to borrowers are two terms often regularly confused with one another in practical life.
Students of Financial Engineering, and Treasury, in particular, should know the difference.
Actually, once you come out of the university/ business school, you come to realize that the market professionals, and financial dealers or traders, have their own technical parlances and lexicon.
What you learn in the book is not how it is done in the real world!
When I used to teach students or train experienced bankers and fund managers, I saw that they both have the same kind of mental blockades.
Both, struggle to relate theory to reality?
I am not an educational psychologist, perhaps, they can better answer this question.
I am doing my master's thesis on alternative option pricing models with applications to risk management (e.g. #VaR measures, hedging).
I have a good background in finance and econometrics.
What kind of new and valuable insight could I bring to this topic? @GARP_Risk@PRMIA
VaR - Value at Risk is not an Option Pricing model!
BSOP Greeks enable the Options trader to understand and hedge against Market Risk in various forms.
You cannot really use VaR to price options on its own.
A RAROC / RARORAC / RORAC/ ROVAR Type Model might do the trick, but that is beyond the scope of your question and this discussion,