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In this episode, Dr. Snake shares his story along his path from a master's in quantitative

finance in Italy to landing a quant research role at an asset manager in the Netherlands. His

struggles with the cultural differences, how he transitioned to a bulge

bracket bank in Zurich, and one key piece of advice he would have given his younger self. Stay tuned.

Great, Dr. Snake. Thank you so much for joining us on the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thank you.

It would be great if you could start by just giving the listeners a quick overview of your background.

Yeah, sure.

So after graduating in my master's in Italy, I obtained an internship in an asset management company in the Netherlands. And I joined for six months and I was a quantitative research analyst. My master's degree also was in quantitative finance, so that was really important to me, basically, to follow the path of my studies.

And after that, my contract was renewed for a year, but I left earlier to go to Switzerland in Zurich for a major investment bank, and now

I'm a quantitative risk modeler in Switzerland.

Great.

So you went from quant researcher to quantitative risk modeler from at a, the first place in

the Netherlands, that was not an investment bank or that was what

would you call that just a small asset management got it okay and then you went from there to a large

bank in switzerland as a quantitative model or how much overlap from jumping from a quantitative

research in you know i put that in quotes position to a quantitative

modeler was it a lot of the same skill sets in terms of skill set quite a lot because of programming

and so yeah and also quantitative thinking about any problem that comes out during your career.

So if initially the problem was to obtain alpha and obtain important performance in investing

and with strategies, which were more or less systematic.

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