6 Types of Quant - Mark Joshi

[CLy]

In "On Becoming A Quant" by Mark Joshi, he mentioned six types of quants ( (1) Front office/desk quant (2) Model validating quant (3) Research quant
(4) Quant developer (5) Statistical arbitrage quant (6) Capital quant). However, Google (i.e., QuantStart) divides Quant into (1) Quant Trader (2) Quant Developer (3) Quant Researcher.

How are these two lists different?

 

[KillingField]

Speaking very roughly (categorizations such as this do not necessarily make sense in today's world where everyone calls themselves a quant), the first list is applicable to the sell side, the latter to the buy side. I believe Joshi's entire career was spent in the former.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Speaking very roughly (categorizations such as this do not necessarily make sense in today's world where everyone calls themselves a quant), the first list is applicable to the sell side, the latter to the buy side. I believe Joshi's entire career was spent in the former.

Mark Joshi passed away a while back

Mark S. Joshi - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[binomial-torrent]

in today's world where everyone calls themselves a quant

I just hear varying degrees of data scientist/analyst/engineer and software development, also buzzwords i guess

 

[Daniel Duffy]

I just hear varying degrees of data scientist/analyst/engineer and software development, also buzzwords i guess

Not to mention "thought leaders" LOL

 

[PepeQuant]

Mark Joshi passed away a while back

Mark S. Joshi - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

RIP. His interview book, together with Xinfeng Zhou's, are great help to lots of us.