Articles by Mauro Cesa
BlackRock appoints Pierre Sarrau as chief risk officer
Current CRO Edward Fishwick will be head of research at BlackRock’s RQA group
Baruch, Princeton cement duopoly in 2026 Quant Master’s Guide
Columbia jumps to third place, ETH-UZH tops European rivals
Quantcast Master’s Series: Walter Farkas, ETH – University of Zurich
Swiss planning, large joint faculty and public presentations shape the programme
Quantcast Master’s Series: Jack Jacquier, Imperial College London
A shift towards market micro-structure and ML has reshaped the programme
Quantcast Master’s Series: Kihun Nam, Monash University
Melbourne-based programme winks at pension fund sector
Quantcast Master’s Series: Petter Kolm, Courant Institute
The NYU programme is taught almost exclusively by elite financial industry practitioners
Want to be a quant? Here’s how (and how not) to get hired
Stay curious, be a team player, speak well – and don’t be big-headed
Quantcast Master’s Series: Laura Ballotta, Bayes Business School
The business school prioritises the teaching of applicable knowledge with a keen eye on the real world
For tomorrow’s quants, Python is essential; AI isn’t
Proportion of PhDs in quant teams is sliding, as employers focus on all-round skills
Podcast: Iabichino on finance-native neural networks
UBS quant explains how to incorporate financial laws into an AI framework
Quantcast Master’s Series: Dan Stefanica and Jim Gatheral
Baruch College leaders on how they manage the top-ranked quant finance master’s programme
Tomorrow’s Quants: what it takes to be a next-gen modeller
Employers increasingly prize mix of hard and soft skills, Risk.net survey reveals
Copulas find new role in derivatives pricing
Pricing model for exotic options revives poster child of 2008 credit crisis