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General Finance Textbooks

  • Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, John Hull
  • The Concepts and Practice of Mathematical Finance, Mark Joshi

Asset Pricing

  • Asset Pricing (Revised Edition), Cochrane, John H. Princeton University Press, 2009.
  • Financial Decisions and Markets: A Course in Asset Pricing, Campbell, John Y. Princeton University Press, 2017.
  • Asset pricing and portfolio choice theory, Back, Kerry. Oxford University Press, 2010.
  • Damodaran on Valuation, Damodaran, Aswath, Wiley Finance, 2006

Asset Allocation

  • Introduction to Risk Parity and Budgeting, Roncalli, Thierry, 2013
  • Asset Management: A Systematic Approach to Factor Investing, Ang, Andrew, Financial Management Association, 2014

Option Pricing Theory and Stochastic Calculus

  • Financial Calculus: An Introduction to Derivative Pricing, Martin Baxter and Andrew Rennie
  • Arbitrage Theory in Continuous Time, Tomas Björk
  • Stochastic Calculus for Finance I: The Binomial Asset Pricing Model, Steven Shreve
  • Stochastic Calculus for Finance II: Continuous-Time Models, Steven Shreve
  • Martingale Methods in Financial Modelling, Marek Musiela and Marek Rutkowski
  • Mathematical Methods for Financial Markets, Monique Jeanblanc, Marc Yor, and Marc Chesney

#Asset Classes

Equity Derivatives:

  • Equity derivatives, Marcus Overhaus et al.
  • Equity Hybrid Derivatives, Marcus Overhaus et al.
  • The Volatility Surface, Jim Gatheral
  • Stochastic Volatility Modeling, Lorenzo Bergomi

FX Derivatives:

  • Foreign Exchange Option Pricing, Iain J. Clark
  • FX Options and Smile Risk, Antonio Castagna
  • FX Options and Structured Products, Uwe Wystup

Commodity Derivatives:

  • Commodity Option Pricing, Iain J. Clark
  • Commodities and Commodity Derivatives, Helyette Geman

Interest Rate Derivatives:

  • Interest Rate Option Models, Rebonato
  • Interest Rate Models – Theory and Practice (with Smile, Inflation and Credit), Damiano Brigo and Fabio Mercurio
  • Interest Rate Modeling I, II & III, Leif B. G. Andersen and Vladimir V. Piterbarg

Inflation Derivatives:

  • Interest Rate Models – Theory and Practice (with Smile, Inflation and Credit), Damiano Brigo and Fabio Mercurio

Credit Derivatives:

  • Credit Risk - Modeling, Valuation & Hedging, Tomasz R. Bielecki and Marek Rutkowski
  • Modelling Single-name and Multi-name Credit Derivatives, Dominic O’Kane
  • Interest Rate Models – Theory and Practice (with Smile, Inflation and Credit), Damiano Brigo and Fabio Mercurio

XVA:

  • XVA: Credit, Funding and Capital Valuation Adjustments, Andrew Green
  • Counterparty Credit Risk, Collateral and Funding, Damiano Brigo, Massimo Morini, and Andrea Pallavicini

Quantitative Risk Management

  • Quantitative Risk Management: Concepts, Techniques and Tools, Alexander J. McNeil, Rudiger Frey, and Paul Embrechts

Mathematics

Probability and Stochastic Processes:

  • Probability, A.N. Shiryaev
  • Probability, Leo Breiman
  • Stochastic Calculus and Applications, Samuel N. Cohen and Robert J. Elliott

Statistics:

  • Statistical Inference, George Casella and Roger Berger
  • Theoretical Statistics - Topics for a Core Course, Robert W. Keener
  • Time Series Analysis, James Hamilton
  • The econometrics of financial markets, Campbell, John Y., Andrew Wen-Chuan Lo, and Archie Craig MacKinlay. Vol. 2. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Programming

  • C++ Design Patterns and Derivatives Pricing, Mark Joshi

Interviews

  • Quant Job Interview Questions and Answers, Mark Joshi
  • Heard on the Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews, Timothy Crack

Being a Quant

  • My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance, Emanuel Derman
  • The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It, Scott Patterson
  • A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market, Edward Thorpe
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