<p>I have been looking into doing finance .
However I am still looking at the different areas in finance.</p>
<p>From the research I have done, all of these do NOT seem appealing to me right now:
-personal finance
-mortgage/broker
-investment management
-commercial banking
-investment banking
-real estate
-insurance</p>
<p>Can you list some other areas in finance that I can research and look into?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Corporate finance would be a big one. Basically working in house in a corporation on the financial decisions and deals that business makes through research and analysis. Top dog being the CFO.</p>
<p>Is there really anything else besides Corporate Finance since you seem to have crossed off just about everything? I guess consulting is there too.</p>
<p>Can a finance major provide you with sufficient knowledge to invest in self-managed funds, bonds, stocks etc in capital markets?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>@Zooeax10 - Yes you learn about financial markets and products as a finance major. Some programs offer a wider variety of classes than others so it helps to view through their list of available courses.</p>
<p>-financial economics
-computational finance
-quantitative finance
-financial econometrics
-derivative pricing
-structured finance and structured trade finance</p>
<p>All of these are more interesting (in my opinion) and more challenging (not much debate here) than what has been mentioned so far, including corporate finance. Typically you’ll have to take graduate level (which means MS or PhD. MBA doesn’t count) to get real exposure to this stuff though since the math is reasonably advanced, and the content is badly dumbed down for undergrad courses (and MBA courses) in most instances.</p>
<p>you clearly should nto be a finance major…</p>
<p>Fund management.</p>
<p>“-financial economics
-computational finance
-quantitative finance
-financial econometrics
-derivative pricing
-structured finance and structured trade finance”</p>
<p>I think you repeated a lot of stuff. Eg. financial economics~financial econometrics, computational finance~quantitative finance…</p>
<p>But I’m thinking of going into either financial engineering or quantitative fund management.</p>
<p>There is a bit overlap between techniques used across these fields, but on the whole they are certainly not identical.</p>