Category: General
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What’s up? What’s next?
Good afternoon everyone, I decided to write a very quick post since I haven’t been posting much lately, for several reasons. As a matter of fact, I’ve been pretty busy at work and my mind was always caught between two thoughts so it’s been difficult for me to come up with complete posts. However, I…
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Free top quality online classes
Good afternoon everyone! I decided today to take the opportunity to write this post about a new resource I discovered a few month ago and which I have been using ever since then, Coursera. The idea behind Coursera is to provide free online video classes to be accessed by students all over the world at any…
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When the Dark Knight rises profound human behavior questions
Good evening everybody, I decided to take a few minutes to write this post as I witnessed today two incredible things as I went to the Swiss premiere of “Batman: The Dark Knight Rises”. First of all, the movie itself; it’s astonishing. I really liked it. I don’t usually go to the theater to watch movies…
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CFA Level 1 Review: Quantitative Finance, Time Value of Money.
In this post, I will present a summary of the quantitative finance part of the CFA Level 1 exam. The time value of money is a trivial concept in Finance, which can be summarized as “one dollar today is better than one dollar tomorrow“, because of the risk-free interest rate \(r\). The following formulas allow…
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A new challenge has entered the ring!
My first social life in the first 6 months of year 2012 has been compromised by a new challenge I decided to take on this year, the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) curriculum. The CFA program is divided in 3 exams denoted Level I, II and III. The candidate gets the CFA designation upon completing the…