How Do You Become A Financial Engineer?
Financial engineers solve financial problems that may include determining securities prices, portfolio management, and risk and financial modeling. To become a financial engineer, you should pursue academic training at the undergraduate and graduate levels. You may consider a preparation course before graduate school if you are returning to higher education after working. Academic programs in financial engineering develop the necessary skills to work in the industry through a multi-disciplinary academic approach that covers several fields including finance, computer science, economics, engineering methods and statistics. Financial engineers commonly work for banks, investment firms, hedge funds, and insurance companies, and in corporate finance and government. Pick an undergraduate major that offers the mathematics foundation for graduate studies in financial engineering. Related undergraduate majors with a substantial mathematics component are economics, finance and, of course, math.
