In my understanding an MBA isn't considered much of a qualification in finance, banking or trading. Quants have quantitative degrees, while traders... well, they just seem to be some kind of trained gorilla as far as I can figure out.

Quants and traders aren't the only people on wall street. I think most ibankers, besides the first and second years, have mbas.

In that case, though, the "savings" are likely to be decent investments. In any case, it's hard to get away from the post's breakdown of methods to get to $5M.

True. And those top finance jobs still go to a small minority of people.