When the pandemic hit and giving presentations in-person wasn’t possible, we redesigned the required internship course credit assignment and hired a production studio to deliver a one-day event called Internships Showcase. Based on the three-minute thesis competition, we challenged our grads to present their Winter internship highlights in three minutes using only three slides. Internship...Read More
Climate change has increasing financial impacts on society in a variety of ways, for example through the large-scale destruction of property and the disruption of supply chains caused by extreme weather events. These impacts are expensive to the individual as well as to financial institutions. Modelling climate risk is one method that financial institutions can...Read More
Internships are steppingstones to kick-starting a career in quantitative finance. Every year, MMF grads work full-time from January through April, giving them hands-on experience using the cutting-edge skills they learned in the program. Employers include big five Canadian banks, top pension funds, asset management firms, big four consulting companies and fintech enterprises. What interns learn...Read More
William Smalley has been a friend of the MMF program since 2020, when he gave the keynote address that kicked off MMF 2020 Symposium. William is a management consultant, facilitator, keynote speaker and the President of Route Five International Inc. He is the author of “Intelligent Selling™” a next generation sales program based on collaboration...Read More
Lucas Krenn (MMF 2021) is a Quantitative Trader at flovtec, a Swiss crypto company. His MMF cohort completed their degrees entirely remotely during the pandemic, including securing their internships and conducting their full-time job search once they completed the program. Lucas applied for multiple quant roles in financial services and interviewed as many as dozen...Read More
Lucas Krenn (MMF 2021) is a Quantitative Trader at flovtec, a Swiss crypto company. His MMF cohort completed their degrees entirely remotely during the pandemic, an experience which made relationship building a challenge. Multiple group assignments helped relieve some of the social isolation Lucas felt, and he soon developed friendships that have stood the test...Read More
Rotational Programs Three Ways Rotational programs are highly coveted opportunities at major banks and pension funds which allow the successful candidate to gain hands-on work experience in three to four different areas of the institution’s business over a 24-months period. Following the rotation, the institution typically offers fulltime employment in the business area that both...Read More
Rotational Programs Three Ways Rotational programs are highly coveted opportunities at major banks and pension funds which allow the successful candidate to gain hands-on work experience in three to four different areas of the institution’s business over a 24-months period. Following the rotation, the institution typically offers fulltime employment in the business area that both...Read More
