Category: General
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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…
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My wishes for 2012
Good evening everyone, As we are converging towards the end of 2011, I would like to come back on the major events of this year and share with you my views on the upcoming one. Finance Let’s first start by a global overview of the financial world. As a matter of fact, 2011’s second semester…