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YOUR KILLER EQUITIES INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: Explain exotic equity options to an 8 year old in a few lines
Here’s the latest question sent in by site visitors who have attended equities interviews at investment banks. This was allegedly asked in an equity trading interview at JPMorgan. If you disagree with the answer at any point, please express your opinion in the comments box below. THE QUESTION: Explain exotic equity options to an 8 [...]
YOUR KILLER EQUITIES INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: There are 10 seconds to go in a basketball game, you trail by 2 points, what do you do?
Here’s the latest question sent in by site visitors who have attended equities interviews at investment banks. This was allegedly asked in an equities index arbitrage trading interview at Credit Suisse. If you disagree with the answer at any point, please express your opinion in the comments box below. THE QUESTION: There are 10 seconds [...]
YOUR KILLER EQUITIES INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: If you were a stock, which options would be most actively traded on you?
Our equities interview question competition is over. Someone has won an iPad. If it wasn’t you and you sent in a question, then sorry. We’ll be publishing the questions over the next few weeks. In the meantime, here’s the winner, allegedly asked in an interview for a junior cash equity trading role at HSBC. THE [...]
Help! Should I work on the buyside? Should I work on the sellside?
“I have been working on the buyside for three years as an analyst and am looking at potentially moving to the sell side. I’m an equity researcher and moving to the sellside would probably mean joining at the associate level. On the other hand, if I stay on the buyside I’ll probably be able to [...]
Equity derivatives interview questions from Goldman Sachs
Equity derivatives are going to be totally steaming, at least compared to all other areas in 2011 according to analysts at JPMorgan. You may therefore be interested to know what Goldman Sachs is allegedly asking in equity derivative interviews this year. The questions below were sent in by a student for our latest iPod competition, [...]
Finland looking to lure London expatriates home
It’s unlikely to overtake Sweden as the hub for financial services in the Nordics anytime soon, but Finland is seeing a rapid increase in investment banking hiring and recruitment activity. Swedbank in its latest results last month revealed it had launched new fixed income and currency operations in the country during the third quarter while [...]
Oslo is fast-becoming the place to be for Nordic equities professionals
With DnB Nor expanding its Nordic equity sales and research teams and opportunities still scarce in Sweden, Oslo is rapidly becoming an attractive destination for capital markets professionals. DnB Nor last month unveiled a significant expansion of its equity research and sales teams, recruiting for a range of capital markets jobs based in both Oslo [...]
If Nordic ECM flurry continues, new jobs look likely
The number of equity capital market deals being carried out in the Nordic region has almost trebled in the past quarter, compared with the dire state of play a year ago. According to figures from data provider Dealogic, a total of 37 deals took place in the third quarter of this year, worth more than [...]
Musical chairs within Nordic equity sales and research
SEB has made a tranche of significant hires and internal promotions within its Enskilda equities business, as key Nordic players move to strengthen their equity sales and research operations. The bank has appointed former Second Swedish National Pension Fund (AP2) head Fredrik Carlsson to lead its Swedish equities research team. At much the same time [...]
Can Pandit handle it (and should you steer clear of Citi if not)?
If Meredith Whitney’s right, Citi’s going to the dogs no matter how hard Vikram Pandit tries to bed it down amongst the roses. Whitney says Pandit faces an “impossible feat” in turning Citi around. The associated costs, according to Whitney, are simply too “seismic” and the revenue streams too feeble. From the Whitney perspective, Pandit’s [...]
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