Top 4 Tips for QFin Students
Here are my top four tips any for students in quantitative finance.
Students
Lecture notes, problem sets, and resources for students of quantitative finance.
Updated for the 2025–2026 academic year.
Practical guides
How to Write a CV in Finance
Your CV is your first impression to a potential employer. Financial services have specific expectations for CVs that differ from academia.
A Brief Interview Guide
Congratulations for being invited to interview. In this memo, I'll share some practical advice for finance interviews.
Theory and proofs
Proof: Black Scholes Merton Equation
The proof of the Black Scholes and Merton partial differential equation for option pricing, using Itô calculus.
Proof: Geometric Brownian Motion
We will derive the closed form of the Geometric Brownian Motion with Itô's lemma.
Proof: Linear Regression
Linear regression is one of the simplest modelling techniques and a favourite of statistics; here is the formal derivation.
Option Basics: Styles, Put-Call Parity and Greeks
Options are a common topic in mathematical finance. Beyond the Black Scholes Merton equation, it is good to know some basics about options as a product.
Performance Measures
There are different performance estimators that are industry-standard for assessing strategies and funds.