As long as you cracked the Black and Scholes, I think you will be fine with the employers..;o)

Thanks for the recomm. havent read it yet..the controversies surrounding Soros have always intrigued me, maybe its time to pick up one of his books.

I was one yr your junior at NTU. I don’t expect you to know me though!

I’ve read the book and it’s definitely a very good read. I’m planning to do financial engineering next yr!!

Thanks for the comment..has strengthened my resolve to read the book..

Engineering to Finance – Welcome to the club =)

Thinking about it, in INdia, there isn’t much of a chance for someone academically good and who wants to do a career in anything other than medecine – to do but engineering. I mean its not really a choice to take up BCom or BA if you are good at studies – though it is changing of late I guess.

Then again finance – it has become so complicated – and my personal opinion – moved farther away from reality – that you need to be able to grapple with complex mathematics – who else can do it better than engineers – and then add the money element!

But after moving into the finance field – the moment I cracked Black and Scholes equation, I knew finance was not my field (perhaps you should remove this comment – I dont want my future employers to see what I think of derivatives…ha ha ha!).

By the way have you read the book by George Soros – The Alchemy of Finance – I found it rather good – but may be only for those not into Finance!