Due to the illegal activities that occurred at Enron and other companies at the start of the 21st century and the mortgage security-related crisis that occurred later in the same decade, financial ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the creation and management of exceptional wealth. The management of leverage and cash flow is often seen as ...

Financial engineering uses mathematical formulas to resolve financial problems. It employs methods and skills from areas as diverse as computer programming, statistical analysis, macroeconomics and ...

A hedge funder is supporting a free master's degree program in a field that's integral to Wall Street's future. Igor Tulchinsky, the founder of WorldQuant, a New York-based quantitative hedge fund, ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Amy Soricelli has over 40 years working with job candidates and has honed the art of the job ...

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of ...

A first introduction to probability and statistics. This course will provide background to understand and produce rigorous statistical analysis including estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis ...

Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The rebirth of financial engineering over the past few years has been every bit as striking as the returns once ...

Valeant, SunEdison…the S&P 500? Financial engineering has built vast financial edifices, but all too often there is little of substance providing support. The latest Wall Street constructs to crumble ...

The last financial crisis taught us some of the risks to the economy when "financial engineering" gets out of hand. Property developers had borrowed nearly all of their capital from the banks and ...