They're all working on more important shit.
“Investing is increasingly becoming dominated
by physicists, mathematicians, electrical
engineers, and programmers,” says Adrian
Cooper, founder and president of Wall
Street Analytics (Palo Alto, CA), where
roughly one-third of the employees are Ph.D.
physicists. Peter Carr, who heads the Equity
Derivatives Research Group at Bank of America
Securities (New York, NY), recalls that all
of his interviewers for his first position at
Morgan Stanley were physicists.