Teach history to avoid mistakes of yesterday’s quants

Quant grads should be taught follies of LTCM, Gaussian copula and London Whale, writes UBS’s Gordon Lee

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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”

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I recently found myself in a room full of very young – and very bright – master’s in finance students at a top-tier university. I decided to conduct a quick straw poll. I asked whether the assembled grads had heard of the 2012 London Whale incident, in which JP Morgan lost $6.2 billion on a credit derivatives

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