I hate to say this that mostly our favorite subject is the one which is easily understandable for us. Students focus more on financial management, investment analysis, and financial statement analysis and mostly try to get away with other subjects included in their course. Sadly some of the teachers have also been focusing on the
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Category: Finance
All thing finance including status and decisions pertaining to the fund that I manage
Interview as a Fresher in the Financial Industry
Having a strong professional certification in my pocket really helped me score good on the written tests in the financial industry. These were based on bookish knowledge so I was called for an interview. I was not able to score good on the interview since I had no practical exposure to financial industry and all
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Financial Analysis is Not a Game of Numbers
Most of the students who are studying up to be analysts just think that it is a game of numbers, and you to play around them. In practice, numbers are used in financial analysis to actually support our ideas. Financial analysis is all about understanding how the economy works and the dynamics of different sectors.
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Fund Performance 15-04-10
04-06-10 The fund and KSE100 have experienced considerable decline in value during last one month. Uncertainty regarding imposition of Capital Gain Tax on stock investments has been one of the major reasons for selling by local investors in the market. One of the many reasons why the fund kept under performing KSE100 during this all
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Theory vs Practical: Being Clueless
Problem with being a full time professional qualification student without any prior knowledge is the expectations people develop from you. They expect you to know each and everything related to that field, and they are right to make that assumption. What else can one expect from a student of such an expensive qualification. They assume
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Wateen Telecom: Eyebrows raised!
Wateen Telecom has offered its shares for public offering and I analyzed Wateen Telecom to put forward my recommendation to investors, for my company. I recommended investors to not subscribe to the IPO. I have attached a copy of my report with the post and it can be viewed here: Click here to download Wateen
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Sell Side Research Products
Following my previous post on A Day as a Sell-Side Research Analyst, I am going to talk about the research products here. Research products are the services that sell side research team provides to the clients. I am going to mention the most common ones here: a) News Updates: Relevant news from newspapers and other sources
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Investment Prospect: Agri auto Industries
I am thinking to buy an investment in Agriauto Ltd. at current levels. I already have some of its shares in my investment portfolio but I believe the stock still has potential. The stock is currently trading at Rs70 and had earnings of Rs7 per share during the half year. Since second half of a fiscal year is better
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Importance of Effective Communication Skills
I would like to highlight the need to keep a check on the communication skills, even if your job doesn’t directly need you to. Effective communication can be through verbal speech or other methods of relaying information that gets a point across to other user. It’s a two way street so you also need to be
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