Monday, March 15, 2010

MBA Financial Course Suggestion

There have been many suggestions on practical courses for graduate students seeking an MBA for a career on Wall Street.

One is the result of my observing the successes, failures and foibles that I have noted on Wall Street. You probably have seen Earl J. Weinreb comments on this subject many times in the past.

One has to do with the study of failures of the many mathematical models that have been devised to reduce risk. Simply, the models have not cut investment risk that is their primary objective.

I am not talking about the well-discussed Black Swan concept of risk that happens once every fifty years or more. Concerning events such as the current financial meltdown. But they regard the constant use of financial models which don’t seem to work as they are intended to do.

The truth is, some complex models work but they are destined to eventually fail, no matter the brain-power and effort applied.

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