Education Process
Education Process
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Every semester, our new members undergo a comprehensive education process combining lectures, quizzes, homework, and real modeling experience. Below is an overview of our lecture series, which every TSIG member can benefit from:
The Financial System and its Participants: overview of the financial landscape, sell side vs. buy side, big names in finance.
Basic Financial Concepts: time value of money, equity vs. debt, convexity, capital structure.
The Three Financial Statements: income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement: basic accounting.
Valuation: Asset-based, DCF, and relative valuation.
Recruiting for Finance: Overview of the recruiting process, resume-building, networking, interviewing.
Bonus Lecture
Our bonus lecture aims to expand our members' knowledge base and make them familiar with concepts which, despite not being widely taught by most undergraduate clubs, can be the entire difference between an average applicant and a great applicant. Below are some of our past bonus lecture topics:
The World of Hedge Funds: Â Overview of different hedge fund strategies, how to evaluate funds, and where alpha comes from.
Fundamental Equity Strategies: What makes a great company great, margin of safety, activism, efficient markets, factors, CAPM.
Debt and Private Equity Strategies: Overview of niches such as RE or VC, multiple expansion and sources of returns, pricing debt yields, investment grade, and ratings.
Macroeconomics for Finance: Foreign exchange, interest rates, central banks, monetary policy, inflation, financial crises.
What No One will Teach You: options, structured products, fixed income, forex, commodities, securitization.
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