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I would like to contribute my thoughts here, Shantanu. I am working for an IB in equities research. Yes, there is a lot of accounting involved, very little technical aspect. Your IT background would only help if you are covering tech stocks. A brief background of myself... Initially, I wanted...

Awesome! I hope this course will still be around in the future. I can't do it for now due to work commitments. But thanks for this!

I am currently starting out my career as an equity analyst in an investment bank in Singapore. Here is my take JinWJ: Pros: - Saves my parents a hell lot of money (definitely true) - Valuable experience working in an investment bank (depends on which position? I would pressume its going to be...

Really excited to hear from you, Andy! Please keep it affordable :)

Its more of a visa problem... EU students tend to land internships faster than non-EU.

Hi Mercury, I hope I can be of some help to you at this late time. I have just graduated from the EDHEC Msc. risk and asset management program (which is now call financial markets) and I am currently interning with the EDHEC risk research institute. The job market situation in Europe is...

Hi there, 1. Is the Mean-variance QP as seen in books solved in practice to obtain the optimal portfolio? I'm not an industry expert to comment on this. But from the academic papers I have read, it is better to minimize the portfolio's variance instead. Estimating returns are much harder and...