This is the presentation I gave at the Quaint Quant Conference 2025. The goal of the conference is to bring together more people to share ideas and collaborate. I touch on some of the main groups of people in the quantitative finance community and what each group can do to build a better community. The four groups are outsiders, academics, students, and practitioners.


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As there has been some discussion around H1Bs and immigration, and a subscriber asked me to talk about it, here is my perspective.

A few high points:
- Immigration is a key part of America.
- Great people should be allowed to immigrate and not just whoever decides they want to come.
- The H1B system needs to match the number of people coming as well as a clear and simpler path to a green card.

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I brought Patrick Zoro from Lehigh University on the channel to discuss jobs, hiring, program rankings, networking, and just to catch up with him on a personal note.

Some interesting takeaways include how programs gather and report graduate income. For example, the data is self reported by the students and then self reported by the universities. Some universities have third partis that do the work to reduce over stating salaries while others directly report. Another interesting piece is that many students take internships or research work at the universities as a way to stay in the US while they find a full time quant job. Should we include these as employment in the reporting for rankings?

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