1， front office包括哪些entrylevel的职位，quantz 是吗？
总的来说Investment Bank分成两个部分，investment banking (or corporate finance) 和 global market，有时候广义一点说还有 wealth management。

investment banking 就是邓可，CFA等的工作范畴，主要包括 M&A, IPO, bond issuance，这一块是和企业打交道的。本科生在investment banking里一般都叫analyst，MBA就叫associate。
global market主要是和市场打交道，通常分equity, fixed income, FX, commodity, emerging market等等。global market 的front office有trading, sales and research department。

quantitative analyst大多是front office的，但是这个role比较特殊，他们用数学和计算的手段来对金融产品估价，这样让traders就能够对价格有一个大致的了解。这个职位需要比较多的数学知识，就我个人认为，NUS的CFE program不能够完全覆盖这些知识。而且一般的quantz都base in NY or London，大多数大公司也只招至少Master or PhD in math or physics。

2， quantz 平时都做些什么？ 看到dengke 是做corporate finance的，不知道跟CFA同学做的是一样的东西吗？

上面都回答得差不多了吧。

HSS library 就有，只是one week loan。

这本书对了解investment bank有莫大帮助，而且作者笔锋犀利不失诙谐，是很有意思的一本书。

risk management and quants are similar only in the sense that they both require certain level of financial math knowledge. as a matter of fact, pure quantz requires more math knowledge. as a probable result, quantz are paid better than risk managers.

but they serve different roles in, say, an investment bank. quantz supports the traders by providing them with an estimate of price. risk manager usually calculates VaR for a portfolio, or a department or even the whole company and prepares risk report.

hope these helps.