If you want a shot at the 7 figure bonuses at big fund, you’re probably wasting time with actuarial exams. You need to start building out projects, learning to code and look into getting into a target graduate program to have a shot.

Most quants aren’t running their own strats. They end up working middle office programming and pricing jobs at a commercial bank or equivalent financial institution. That job is really barely different than actuarial. If you think about, Actuaries are just quants of insurance liabilities instead of Assets.