About

Hello and welcome to my website! I'm Will, a young financial professional living and working in London. Whether it's maths and finance or my take on managing your money as a young professional or learning to code, this site serves as a home for my thoughts.

I aim to produce both educational content aimed at graduates and students seeking roles in financial institutions, and more general articles.

My Background

Back in July 2018, I graduated from the MSc in Mathematical and Computational Finance at Oxford University, a masters degree serving as a comprehensive overview and introduction to the world of quantitative finance.

Since finishing at Oxford, I've been working on the trading floor at Barclays Investment Bank as a Quantitative Analyst. In particular, I research, design and implement algorithms that allow our interest rates derivatives trading desk to price and analyse the risks involved in their trades.

Prior to my masters degree, I studied the BSc in Mathematics at the University of Warwick, graduating in 2018. While at Warwick I focused my studies heavily on mathematical analysis, probabilty, statistics and programming.

I have experience working as both a software engineer and as a data scientist, and I remain keenly interested in both fields, especially with regards to their applications in finance and trading.

Beyond the classroom/office, I have a strong passion for rugby and sport of all kinds, as well as exercise and fitness, having completed a half-marathon in 2018 and hopefully a few more races by the time you're reading this!

Behind the Title

Aside from being a cheap and punchy domain I could get my hands on, the title Alpha Beta Rho does have a meaning. In my line of work, we're interested in modelling the dynamics of various different financial quantities. One such quantity is known as a forward price. A vastly successful and well known forward model used in the industry is the Stochastic Alpha, Beta, Rho model, named because of it's three governing Greek letter parameters: $\alpha$ (Alpha), $\beta$ (Beta) and $\rho$ (Rho). See Wikipedia for a more comprehensive overview of the model.

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