#5 - Alex Gordon-Brown on how to donate millions in your 20s working in quantitative trading

#5 - Alex Gordon-Brown on how to donate millions in your 20s working in quantitative trading

Quantitative financial trading is one of the highest paying parts of the world’s highest paying industry. 25 to 30 year olds with outstanding maths skills can earn millions a year in an obscure set of ‘quant trading’ firms, where they program computers with predefined algorithms to allow them to trade very quickly and effectively.

Update: we're headhunting people for quant trading roles

Want to be kept up to date about particularly promising roles we're aware of for earning to give in quantitative finance?

Get notified by letting us know here.

This makes it an attractive place to work for people who want to ‘earn to give’, and we know several people who are able to donate over a million dollars a year to effective charities by working in quant trading. Who are these people? What is the job like? And is there a risk that their work harms the world in other ways?

Apply for personalised coaching, see what questions are asked when, and read extra resources to learn more.

I spoke at length with Alexander Gordon-Brown, who has worked as a quant trader in London for the last three and a half years and donated hundreds of thousands of pounds. We covered:

* What quant traders do and how much they earn.
* Whether their work is beneficial or harmful for the world.
* How to figure out if you’re a good personal fit for quant trading, and if so how to break into the industry.
* Whether he enjoys the work and finds it motivating, and what other careers he considered.
* What variety of positions are on offer, and what the culture is like in different firms.
* How he decides where to donate, and whether he has persuaded his colleagues to join him.

Want to earn to give for effective charities in quantitative trading? We want to help.

We’ve helped dozens of people plan their earning to give careers, and put them in touch with mentors. If you want to work in quant trading, apply for our free coaching service.

APPLY FOR COACHING

What questions are asked when?

1m30s - What is quant trading and how much do they earn?
4m45s - How do quant trading firms manage the risks they face and avoid bankruptcy?
7m05s - Do other traders also donate to charity and has Alex convinced them?
9m45s - How do they track the performance of each trader?
13m00s - What does the daily schedule of a quant trader look like? What do you do in the morning, afternoon, etc?
More...

Jaksot(324)

#201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet

#201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet

"Perception is quite difficult with cameras: even if you have a stereo camera, you still can’t really build a map of where everything is in space. It’s just very difficult. And I know that sounds surp...

13 Syys 20242h 1min

#200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks

#200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks

"It’s very hard to find examples where people say, 'I’m starting from this point. I’m starting from this belief.' So we wanted to make that very legible to people. We wanted to say, 'Experts think thi...

4 Syys 20242h 49min

#199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy

#199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy

"I do think that there is a really significant sentiment among parts of the opposition that it’s not really just that this bill itself is that bad or extreme — when you really drill into it, it feels ...

29 Elo 20241h 12min

#198 – Meghan Barrett on upending everything you thought you knew about bugs in 3 hours

#198 – Meghan Barrett on upending everything you thought you knew about bugs in 3 hours

"This is a group of animals I think people are particularly unfamiliar with. They are especially poorly covered in our science curriculum; they are especially poorly understood, because people don’t s...

26 Elo 20243h 48min

#197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic's AI safety policy is up to the task

#197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic's AI safety policy is up to the task

The three biggest AI companies — Anthropic, OpenAI, and DeepMind — have now all released policies designed to make their AI models less likely to go rogue or cause catastrophic damage as they approach...

22 Elo 20242h 29min

#196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter

#196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter

"In the 1980s, it was still apparently common to perform surgery on newborn babies without anaesthetic on both sides of the Atlantic. This led to appalling cases, and to public outcry, and to campaign...

15 Elo 20242h 1min

#195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them

#195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them

"Computational systems have literally millions of physical and conceptual components, and around 98% of them are embedded into your infrastructure without you ever having heard of them. And an inordin...

1 Elo 20242h 8min

#194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government

#194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government

"If you’re a power that is an island and that goes by sea, then you’re more likely to do things like valuing freedom, being democratic, being pro-foreigner, being open-minded, being interested in trad...

26 Heinä 20243h 4min

Suosittua kategoriassa Koulutus

rss-murhan-anatomia
voi-hyvin-meditaatiot-2
rss-narsisti
psykopodiaa-podcast
adhd-podi
rss-vapaudu-voimaasi
rss-niinku-asia-on
psykologia
rss-duodecim-lehti
rss-valo-minussa-2
aamukahvilla
rss-uskonto-on-tylsaa
kesken
koulu-podcast-2
rss-liian-kuuma-peruna
rahapuhetta
jari-sarasvuo-podcast
filocast-filosofian-perusteet
rss-turun-yliopisto
rss-opi-espanjaa