In your opinion, what could be the order of magnitude of the community of
physicists in finance?
I'm just thinking to an order of magnitude or a broad range, no more.
Maybe each of us can estimate the magnitude within his/her own country.
Concerning population and development of the physics/banking environments,
USA+UK+FR+DE+IT could be enough.
For Italy, I guess we are in the range 100-200 people, do someone disagree?
I hope this question is of interest for someone other than me :-) I don't
know if the answer has already been given (but I don't remember any such
discussion neither in finance-and-physics nor in www.wilmott.com nor
anywhere else in the last 3 years), but in any case I would be VERY grateful
to everyone that could indicate at least a (significant) part of it.
I hope to read you soon,
ciao
Marco Bianchetti
PS: In order to better define the reference set, I propose to consider
people meeting ALL the following characteristics:
1) have a university degree in physics (B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D.)
2) AND are presently working in
- Financial Engineering
- Risk Management
- Asset Liability Management
- Front & Sales Office
- Private Banking
- Consultancy in the finance sector
- Financial software engineering
- other ?
3) AND are presently employed in a
- Bank & Investment Bank
- Asset management society
- Insurance society
- Consultancy, analysis, research, Revision Society or professional
association
- Software house
- Corporate
- Public administration
- other ?
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