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
- Principles of Corporate Finance by Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Franklin Allen (https://www.amazon.com/Principles-of-Corporate-Finance/dp/1265074151)
- Options, Futures and Other Derivatives by John Hull (https://www.amazon.com/Options-Futures-Other-Derivatives-Global/dp/1292410655)
- Advanced Portfolio Management: A Quant’s Guide for Fundamental Investors by Giuseppe Paleologo
- The Elements of Quantitative Investing by Giuseppe Paleologo
- Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Option Market Making: Trading and Risk Analysis for the Financial and Commodity Option Markets by Allen Jan Baird
For interview preparation:
- Cracking the coding interview – focused on c++ / programming questions
- “A practical guide to quant finance” by Zhou (Club Review: known as “the green book”, is THE standard book for quant interviews, which covers basically everything)
- The g research mock exam: https://www.gresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Sample-Quant-Exa.pdf
- The Jane street sheet (is also good probability revision) https://www.janestreet.com/static/pdfs/trading-interview.pdf
- Here’s what Berkeley tells their student to do for interviews: https://haas.berkeley.edu/current-mfe-students/requirements-conditions
- Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance by Paul Wilmott (https://www.amazon.com/Frequently-Asked-Questions-Quantitative-Finance/dp/0470748753)
- Heard on the Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews by Timothy Falcon Crack (https://www.amazon.com/Heard-Street-Quantitative-Questions-Interviews/dp/0994103867)
- Quant Job Interview Questions and Answers by Mark Joshi (https://www.amazon.com/Quant-Interview-Questions-Answers-Second/dp/0987122827)