Financial engineering
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Financial engineering is the process of employing financial mathematics and computer simulations to make trading, hedging and investment decisions, as well as facilitating the risk management of those decisions. Utilizing various methods, financial engineering aims to precisely determine the financial risk that certain financial instruments create.
Areas where financial engineering techniques are employed include:
- Investment banking
- Corporate strategic planning
- Securities trading and risk management
- Derivatives trading and risk management
- Investment management
Some big contributors to financial engineering:
This is a field of knowledge that is drawing the attention of actuarial science graduates or computer science graduates with a good mathematical background.
