Resources

Follow CERN finance club events: https://indico.cern.ch/category/7967/

Financial Markets to mathematical methods in Quant

  • Statistics of Financial markets by Franke (Club Review: A complete overview, might be advanced)
  • Introduction to financial option valuation (Club review: recommended as one of the first books for anyone interested in derivatives)
  • Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance by Paul Wilmot
  • Quantitative finance with python by Chris Kelliher
  • The art of quantitative finance by Gerhard Larcher
  • Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk by Richard C. Grinold, Ronald N. Kahn (https://www.amazon.com/Active-Portfolio-Management-Quantitative-Controlling/dp/0070248826)
  • Active Equity Management by Xinfeng Zhou, Sameer Jain (https://www.amazon.fr/Active-Equity-Management-Xinfeng-Zhou/dp/0692297774)
  • A first course in quant finance by Thomas Mazzini
  • Monte Carlo in financial engineering by Paul Glasserman 
  • ML in finance by Matthew Dixon

Corporate Finance

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