[maisatomai]

friendlyguy wrote:

you are not interested in finance, you only care about money.

If serena williams dun like tennis and love the money only, I don see a problem here

[maisatomai]

friendlyguy wrote:

then engineering people are paid higher.. how about CFA starting salary? I heard only 2.5k..even CFA guy in malaysia only earned RM3.5k

.... Dunno whether are you trolling but a CFA has 4 yrs related working exp. if he is earning RM3.5k then something must be quite wrong

[gld998]

maisatomai wrote:

.... Dunno whether are you trolling but a CFA has 4 yrs related working exp. if he is earning RM3.5k then something must be quite wrong

yaya...3.5k with 12 months bonus....

[honestedseller]

Ah_keong wrote:

do correct me if I am wrong.

For me, MFE means Masters of Science in Financial Engineering. Unless your MFE means something else....

It involves Finance fundamentals, economics, mathematics, programming and markets modelling algorithms, etc etc....

What I know is that they are usually at the back end doing financial analysis.

May I ask what is your impression of front office? Do you mind sharing your current position? As in which field of engineering are you in and your average results, etc?

I am studying mech engine at NUS. Havent entered yet. My impression of front office is they do sales. I have undertaken a few courses to improve my knowledge in finance.

I thought with MFE, at least will end up middle office?

[honestedseller]

maisatomai wrote:

6-8k? Are we talking about Ringgit here?

Seriously if I graduate from msc finance and I get a 3.5k offer, I will bite it (Although this will be the same pay as a average fresh grad).

Thought MFE is a masters course. Can't even get a 5k job?

[honestedseller]

fishfillet wrote:

Many of the Singaporean universities and their MBA programs are well recognized internationally - NUS MBA, NANYANG MBA, and SMU MBA, I don't think you'd necessarily have to travel overseas to one of the financial times top 10 business schools, but if you desire, there's always INSEAD and Chicago Booth, they've campuses right here in SG.

Is INSEAD and Chicage dist learning recognized by banks?

[maisatomai]

honestedseller wrote:

I am studying mech engine at NUS. Havent entered yet. My impression of front office is they do sales. I have undertaken a few courses to improve my knowledge in finance.

I thought with MFE, at least will end up middle office?

MFE is for back office, MAF for middle. I am in SMU MAF

[sAVaGEmP5]

u only need 2 guys and a bloomberg terminal. 1 guy run the fund feeding, the other guy does the trading and portfolio management. A bb terminal only 2k/mth. The rest outsource to FT, like legal, IT acct, administration.

That shld more or less cover everything in finance. lol

[sAVaGEmP5]

btw there are about close to 200,000 finance... bankers, traders etc, who just got sacked. And finance jobs are international, meaning best players get it. With the new batches of ppl coming to work, i wonder where u can go... insurance ?

[honestedseller]

sAVaGEmP5 wrote:

btw there are about close to 200,000 finance... bankers, traders etc, who just got sacked. And finance jobs are international, meaning best players get it. With the new batches of ppl coming to work, i wonder where u can go... insurance ?

Then how? just llst work as engineer?

[honestedseller]

maisatomai- your inbox is full. tried to pm you. thanks

[Ah_keong]

honestedseller wrote:

I am studying mech engine at NUS. Havent entered yet. My impression of front office is they do sales. I have undertaken a few courses to improve my knowledge in finance.

I thought with MFE, at least will end up middle office?

I see,

in this case you would need to get good results for your B.Eng degree before applying for MFE. If you are aiming for front office, i don think MFE would be required although it would be good to have

[blurbloco]

maisatomai wrote:

If serena williams dun like tennis and love the money only, I don see a problem here

Actually there is a problem. If she don't like tennis and love money only, she would not be training so hard to win. Lack of motivation.

[blurbloco]

honestedseller wrote:

Thought MFE is a masters course. Can't even get a 5k job?

What gives you the idea a Master degree holder has to be highly paid? If the market is saturated, a Diploma holder, a Bachelor, a Master and a PhD does not held any difference.

[maisatomai]

blurbloco wrote:

Actually there is a problem. If she don't like tennis and love money only, she would not be training so hard to win. Lack of motivation.

She said it herself in the interview

http://www.google.com.sg/search?q=serena+williams+hates+tennis&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari

Money is the motivation.