Personal Interests
My personal interests would include Philosophy and Statistics, but are not limited to those fields.
Philosophy
With so few from the field of Philosophy entering a profession in Finance, it’s interesting to consider that the two most successful Hedge Fund investors, Carl Icahn and George Soros, both hold degrees in Philosophy.
I believe that a broad understanding of Philosophy empowered them with the tools necessary to understand the markets in ways that a formal education in Finance alone could not provide.
Recently, I’ve been reading “The Logic of Scientific Discovery” by Karl Popper and “Prison Notebooks” by Antonio Gramsci.
Statistics
Statistics is by far the one course I found most fascinating. Learning each new process for exploring data further demystified the processes by which theories become conclusions, which eventually become informed decisions. I consider it to be vastly underutilized in all other sciences in terms of its potential.
In the near future, I plan to post a personal study I’ve done which demonstrates a strong negative correlation between the Index of Dissimilarity (a measure of segregation) and the real GDP growth of the top 101 most populated metropolitan areas in the US.