An intellectually stimulating industry, which is one of very few career paths that involve really complicated maths.

BUT

1. Can mathematical models really describe and predict financial markets which involve so much fickleness of human nature?

2. Are quants making the market fairer? No, most likely it is the opposite.

3. Do quants play a constructive role in the society or do they just move money around and in doing so make personal gains out of it?

Wonderful answers to these questions were given by the insiders.

“Banking is supposed to be to take money from people with too much and give it to people with too little who maybe want to start a business if they have a business idea. But that’s not what banking is about anymore. Banking is just about gambling on these numbers, not realising that behind these numbers there are human beings with jobs.’