The QDC transforming your career
This course has been designed to empower individuals who work in or are seeking a career in quantitative finance. Throughout our unique QDC programme, candidates work with hands-on assignments to experience first-hand practical challenges in model development for derivative pricing and systematic trading. The QDC is a career-enhancing professional certificate, that can be taken worldwide.
Support your colleagues learning journey, in their current and future company roles
QDC candidates come from some of the world’s most prestigious financial institutions including: Nomura International Plc, JP Morgan, Deloitte, Credit Suisse, Jefferies, Point 72, Nationwide, Deutsche Bank…
World Class Quantitative Developer Certificate
The QDC is a graduate-level professional certificate, internationally renowned and a solid demonstration of individual commitment to career development.
- Lifelong Learning: All QDC certified students will have access to any updated syllabus, as part of our lifelong learning commitment.
- Employee Retention: Employee talent attraction & retention can be enhanced and loyalty fostered via the MLI’s cutting edge topics and world class faculty.
- Direct Workplace Knowledge Transference: The highly practical nature of the certificate allows employees to directly use their newly obtained knowledge in your workplace environment. The QDC is a career-enhancing professional certificate.
Qualify from anywhere in the world
- Six-month part-time global programme delivered twice a year.
- The weekly recorded lectures are accessible in your educational portal every Thursday. The weekly live seminars take place the following Thursday at 6pm U.K time.
- Study while working: career-enhancing certificate that can be taken worldwide.
Practitioner Orientated
The QDC delivers learning of practical value, developed and taught by highly experienced practitioners.
Expert teaching and support
The QDC Faculty is an acclaimed team of instructors combining respected academics and renowned practitioners in the field of quantitative finance. The Faculty provides mentoring and support during the course and all members are accessible by email or via the online QDC Forum.
Brand new complimentary QDC content:
New QDC Module:
➕ QUANTITATIVE Analyst Developer Strat: THE PROFESSION:
15 hours 30 minutes. This is the first of a kind course that teaches what the job of a quantitative analyst, developer or strat really is.
Duration:
📅 Self-Paced: 15 hours 30 minutes
Format:
💻 Online
📆 Time Commitment:
Recorded lectures accessible any time, from any global location in your educational portal.
📊 Now with a unique case study of Numerix!
Are you an aspiring quant, or you wish to try a different quant job?
Are you a seasoned professional, who now has to deal with quants?
Are you a headhunter, happy to cash in on the market demand for quants?
Are you just curious, why quants are so important now, hence are paid so well?
Are you planning to apply for the 2025 summer internship or graduate placement, with the interviews to commence in the fall of 2024? Or do you know someone like that?
QUANTITATIVE Analyst Developer Strat: THE PROFESSION: 15 hours 30 minutes
Course curriculum
This is the first of a kind course that teaches what the job of a quantitative analyst, developer or strat really is. There will be nearly no math in the course, but you will learn about the exact types of the quant jobs on the sell and buy-side, in consulting and in fintech, daily routines of different types of quants and their interaction among themselves and with other stakeholders, quant reports and other deliverables, quant library organization, the quant R&D process on the sell and buy-side and, finally, the skills that are really necessary beyond the technical ones and the career prospects.
There is also a special section providing a very high-level view on the quant modelling for pricing, risk and trading strategy design.
Sections on the organizational structure, quant job types and quant deliverables will be also useful for non-quants, including MBAs and CFA candidates.
Introduction
- Welcome
- The course outline
- Who is this course for?
- Evolution of the profession
- Pricing and signal vs Risk and Return
- The ultimate motivation
- Why becoming a quant?
- (Special topic) Probability vs Statistics vs ML
- (Special topic) Why everything needs to be priced?
Financial firms and quant roles
- Financial businesses and risks
- Sell-side organisation
- Sell-side quants
- Buy-side organisation and quants
- Financial Consulting
- Fintech and financial software vendors
Daily tasks and reports
- Daily operations of a trading desk or a POD
- Products, positions, books; ageing and position effects
- Evolution of the quant and IT responsibilities
- FO Reports: Position and PNL
- FO Reports: Scenarios and Risk
- FO Reports: PNL explain and PNL predict
- Regulatory reports and limits
Quant libraries and systems
- Quant library. Use cases and deployment
- Quant library organization
- The pricing function
- End user tools
- Case Study: Numerix
Required skills
- Introduction
- Required skills. Part 1
- Required Skills. Part 2
Grades. Progression and Pay.
- Grades. Progression and pay. Introduction
- Grades. Progression and pay
Instructor: Andrey Chirikhin
Andrey is currently a Director at Credit Quantitative Analytics in Barclays Investment Bank, London. His team deals with a wide range of flow and exotic, single name and basket credit products and hybrids.
His career in finance spans more than 25 years, 20 of which he has been a quant. In different positions and organizations, he dealt with modelling of most asset classes and wide range of derivative products, and he also contributed to the risk-side quantitative developments. Before joining Barclays, Andrey worked as a front office quant for Dresdner Kleinwort, HSBC, Goldman Sachs and Royal Bank of Scotland, on the buy side for LetterOne, as well as for PwC and Deloitte as a consultant.
Being a production-grade quant, Andrey is an expert C++/C#/Python programmer, he has an extensive experience in using various compute technologies, including TensorFlow and Spark, and he enjoys web programming (including bidirectional real-time) as a hobby.
You will be able to receive up to 200 CPD points for completing this course
The CPD Certification Service was established in 1996 as the independent CPD accreditation institution operating across industry sectors to complement the CPD policies of professional and academic bodies. The CPD Certification Service provides recognised independent CPD accreditation compatible with global CPD principles.
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