Finance Classes to for aspiring quant?

[PhDorBust]

I'm an undergraduate math major who aspires to be a quant.

Should any finance/economics courses be taken? Or is this portion of the job considered to be trivial?

 

[WhoWee]

Are you planning on a Wall St. career?
http://www.markjoshi.com/downloads/advice.pdf

 

[twofish-quant]

I'm an undergraduate math major who aspires to be a quant.

Should any finance/economics courses be taken? Or is this portion of the job considered to be trivial?

If you want to get into finance and you are posting in this board, then it's better if you just do independent reading by buying books on amazon. If you want to get in through the math/physics route, then remember that banks are looking for people that are good at math/physics/programming that have basic financial knowledge, and you can get basic financial knowledge through self-study.

There is a lot of deep financial and economics knowledge that is there, but a lot of it is not written down and most of that changes very fast (i.e. something can be outdated in a matter of months). Also, for "deep economics and finance", I've found that people in academia are often just frighteningly clueless.