the corner office http://www.thecorneroffice.org/blog tech comments at the corner office Colin Pretorius http://www.thecorneroffice.org/blog/plink/2009/04/090419-1742.html#7572 re: Holiday over part II (by Colin) Hi Maromani

I missed your comment the first time around and apologise for replying so late. I'm sure you've looked at funding from UNISA directly, but I would also suggest approaching some of the SA banks - the degree could be a precursor to a lucrative career and I'm sure that as a post-grad, a lot of financial institutitons would be very interested in speaking to you.

If you do read this again, best of luck.

]]> http://www.thecorneroffice.org/blog/plink/2009/04/090419-1742.html#7478 re: Holiday over part II (by maromani ngonidzashe) am planning to do financial modelling honours next year that is 2009 i have a bsc in maths and statistics how ever am not financially very stable for the expensive text books. What advice can you give?

]]> http://www.thecorneroffice.org/blog/plink/2005/03/050312-0153.html#7473 re: Ctrl-S hangs an xterm (by white_rotten_rabbit) Thank you very much from me too, what a great help!

]]> http://www.thecorneroffice.org/blog/plink/2009/04/090419-1742.html#7449 re: Holiday over part II (by Colin) Hi Munangi

To answer your questions:

a) the (more introductory) subjects I'm doing this year lean towards Mathematics of Finance, but I think there are subjects which lean towards Financial Engineering.

b) yes, the Derivatives Modelling course covers Black-Scholes, and I'm doing two Stochastic Modelling subjects this year (and one more next year)

c) not that I've come across, yet.

Hope that helps!

]]> http://www.thecorneroffice.org/blog/plink/2009/04/090419-1742.html#7446 re: Holiday over part II (by Munangi) Hello,
I am currently completing my undergrad actuarial degree and I noticed I had a greater interest in mathematical finance-derivatives, stochactic calculus, etc... than insurance applications.
During my reseach I stumbled across BSc hons Financial Modelling via unisa thus i searched on the net for comment about it or ppl who hve done it.

Hence i found your blog and thus would like to find out more from you abou the programme.

a) Is the programme more Financial Engineering or Mathematics of Finance
b) Does it cover topics like Black-Scholes Models (Stochastic calculus)
c) Measure theory...

I would really appreciate it if you would help me with this regard...

]]> http://www.thecorneroffice.org/blog/plink/2009/05/090526-1829.html#7444 re: Monopoly (by Adi) Oh stop whining ;) just forward it to your own email for crying out loud... Oh wait, just note, you can only do that when you open myLife in IE, the "really advanced features" doesn't work in firefox. Ok, fine, I see your point.

Good luck with the studies.

]]> http://www.thecorneroffice.org/blog/plink/2009/05/090526-1829.html#7424 re: Monopoly (by Chris) No worries - my ISP will only correspond with you using the email address they give you.

Which is a royal pain in the @rse!!!!

If I pay for a service the least they could do is email me at my chosen address.

]]> http://www.thecorneroffice.org/blog/plink/2005/03/050312-0153.html#7418 re: Ctrl-S hangs an xterm (by Narmada) Thank u. It is very helpful.

]]> http://www.thecorneroffice.org/blog/plink/2009/04/090419-1742.html#7416 re: Holiday over part II (by Richard) Thanks so much for the tut letters. The material looks very interesting indeed. I'll definately be enrolling. I've actually seen that mathematics of finance textbook before at the bookstore and always felt sorry for the poor buggers who have to buy it. Haha isn't it ironic that now I'm one of those buggers!

]]> http://www.thecorneroffice.org/blog/plink/2009/04/090419-1742.html#7415 re: Holiday over part II (by Colin) I have to apologise, the price I was thinking of was R2000, not R3000 (if that helps!) I've mailed the tut letters and the prices to you as well.

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