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by haver
July 9th, 2007, 7:47 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: tel from hh
Replies: 4
Views: 69198

tel from hh

<t>I am working for an IB in London for less than a month (just started) and before that I was working in my country far away from US or UK.Today I was called at my work phone number by a hh to discuss opportunities. I was wandering where did he find my work number and he told me that sb outside the...
by haver
June 5th, 2007, 4:10 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Interview
Replies: 15
Views: 73349

Interview

<t>If you were able to use effectively the hints given to you then your chances are not hurt. Many interviewers prefer to give some hints (even though sometimes confusing hints) in order to avoid the situation to guess if you indeed were intelligent enough to solve the problem at once or you already...
by haver
April 12th, 2007, 12:04 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: stock pricing interview question
Replies: 12
Views: 75625

stock pricing interview question

<t>If you see this problem from the buy side (that is the original question: how much you are willing to pay for that stock), then you should be willing (that doesnt mean that you can do it) to pay the minimum of the current price and its the future expected value discounted to today.if pv<So=100, t...
by haver
April 12th, 2007, 10:46 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: stock pricing interview question
Replies: 12
Views: 75625

stock pricing interview question

<t>If you have noticed what I wrote you would understand that I am not willing to pay more than pv (if noone offers me a price less than 100 then I will not be able to buy the stock because at 100 I would consider it expensive) in case that pv is lower than So. This is not the same with what I assum...
by haver
April 12th, 2007, 6:57 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: stock pricing interview question
Replies: 12
Views: 75625

stock pricing interview question

<t>I believe that is min(So;PV)If PV is less than So then we are not willing to buy the stock at current market price as we have the information that current price is overestimated, thus we are willing to pay up to PVIf PV is more than So then we will be glad to buy at current market price as we hav...
by haver
March 25th, 2007, 7:03 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Change of Numeraire(Margrabe Options)
Replies: 1
Views: 76317

Change of Numeraire(Margrabe Options)

Cholesky decomposition
by haver
March 23rd, 2007, 6:01 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Re application
Replies: 6
Views: 76587

Re application

<t>Ok I agree with what you say, but it is a fact that I know a lot of people hiding this information and I was wandering if the bank do reject them immediately only because of this obvious lie (its more than obvious that the bank has the information whether someone has applied before or not and I b...
by haver
March 23rd, 2007, 1:36 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: integral solution
Replies: 4
Views: 76287

integral solution

I have figured sth out: Yes x is a constant so we can take it out of the integral..The remaining integral is the cdf of the standard normal distribution multiplied with sqrt( 2π ). Is this ok?
by haver
March 23rd, 2007, 1:30 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Re application
Replies: 6
Views: 76587

Re application

<t>In case that a candidate reapplies to the graduate programme of an investment bank that rejectecd him last year, should he write about his rejection if there is a relevent question in the application form (e.g. Have you re-applied to our bank? Provide further details), or should he hide this info...
by haver
March 21st, 2007, 8:34 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: integral solution
Replies: 4
Views: 76287

integral solution

Can you please point me out a solution for the following integral:exp(x+(t^2)/2)dt
by haver
March 6th, 2007, 5:46 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Travel expenses
Replies: 20
Views: 79903

Travel expenses

<t>GS payed for the aiplane tickets through their travel agency (no actual money transaction involving myself). Nevertheless, they claimed that I could arrive to London in the morning, have my interviews and return back immediately after the completion of the interviews, therefore they could not jus...
by haver
March 5th, 2007, 7:29 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Travel expenses
Replies: 20
Views: 79903

Travel expenses

<t>If you feel that you really want the job go for it.If you are not so hot for the role don't go.Either way follow your instinct and your will.I would certainly go for an interview without considering any travel cost if I wanted the job. Never think if they want you or not because they wouldn't hav...
by haver
February 19th, 2007, 12:59 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: quant job interview question: footprints of collinearity
Replies: 42
Views: 84114

quant job interview question: footprints of collinearity

<t>When dealing with estimators you should seek for unbiased estimators that is E(Θest)=Θ.This works perfectly sample mean which is unbiased estimator that is E(1/n*ΣΧi)= μThis is not the case for the sample variance (i.e. the sample variance is not an unbiased estimator). In order to obtain an unbi...
by haver
February 2nd, 2007, 6:31 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Flippable Swap
Replies: 0
Views: 80369

Flippable Swap

<t>Imagine an instrument where two counter parties get into a swap arrangement (fixed for floating - plain vanilla) and then the counter party that is paying the floating has the quarterly option to flip the flows 1y after the start date of the swap and for 3y in order to receive floating instead of...
by haver
August 3rd, 2006, 4:10 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Study FRM or Hull's book?
Replies: 7
Views: 98001

Study FRM or Hull's book?

So here it comes..What would you believe it would be better for a professional career? Study PRM or FRM?I am currently facing this dilemma.. Thanks