Reading the questions is very important especially in Ethics, focus on these areas in my mock exams taken by the coaching institute:
Post Exam experience:
Raw List of Topics:
Economics:
Companies in Hedge funds:
Research areas:
These are list of topics I will slowly expand.
Post Exam experience:
- Do each question of Curriculum and Scz
- Memorize each formula (everyone knows this, but believe me it is imp)
- More tiny and cliche points
- Each line of Scz
- Small things
- Small difference in options
- Play time bound game
- Improve your reading comprehension skills
- Look at triggers, adjectives, extreme words and short down your answer to violation vs no violation
- Do short calculations by hand, don't worry about Calculator
- Least likely still a thing that gives trouble
- Ethics is about identification about breach with respect to the rules
- Ethics is like law, intention and acts if any goes wrong you will be punished
- Astrology, photocopying is all banned
- Soft dollar is something very interesting that you must know
- Confidence is the key in this exam
- Cash means cash in FRA, dont read it wrong
- In ethics read the entire case slowly to understand which is primary violation, this depends on your reading skills
- Lease likely vs most likely
- Maintain the same energy level, and keep energy level very high
- never take yourself in extreme pressure scenarios by not following the time bound game
- not let any negative thoughts come into your mind
- Leave the extreme tough questions for the last
- Many questions are straight from the book like FSA (in the internal exams)
- Your leg and back might pain so keep them healthy
- etc
Raw List of Topics:
- Why subsidies causes loss
- Intersection of marginal cost and average cost
- technical analysis
- ratios
- spot rates
- expectation theory fixed income
- nopat
- portfolio
- sml cml
- jenson alpha portfolio
- tym vs ror current rates
- baesal 3
- ltcm
- basket of currency
- Swedish society website
- Capitalization
- 10k, 10q, 20f US and other things regarding reporting of USA
- Harry Markowitz introduced MP
- Black box trading, high freq trading, nano second information processing
- foreign trade and currency 4 trillion high freq trading
- hisotry of galeon group
- difference between all durations
- portfolio of bonds
- role and detailed modeling of how rating agency rate
- Rating agency downgraded sbi
- silver and gold manipulation by JP morgan
- SAS exam
- Excel most advanced modeling
- Debt structure being changed
- CAPM-CEU frequency
- secured and unsecured
- real or inflated
- Bloomberg terminal
- contra account
- treasury stocks
- After tax margin
- cash margin
- CFA L2 batch starts on 30th Oct
- secured vs unsecured loan
- capex
- LBO leveraged buy out
- Mosaic theory
- is it 5 times?
- after tax margin
- Philip curve long run unemployment remains same (all factor vary, vs one factor)
- minority interest
- reform to put real values
- all good movies on federal reserve
- nasdaq is otc?
- Revise regresson and its application for beta
- diverisfied and undiversifeide
- b vs SD are they of portfolios
- why is market most diversifiable
- different type of margins (derivatives and the table)
- international eco and reporting in l3
- comprehensive income l2
- slope remains same diff
- scenario analysis (sensitivity+best case+worst case)
- sql for selection
- baskets in der
- growing dividend discount model
- capitalization 100/20
- valuation on of inventory
- imparement of assetss and non tangible assets
- forward rate agrremant
- exchange vs swap vs option in derivatives
- currency swap
- CFO depreciation / impairment / capitalization of long termed assts
- tough questions of calculation of good will where other company has good will etc
- issuing bond at different rates and calculations
Economics:
- taylor
- phillip
- M2 mesure
- Laffor curve
- HHI index for monoply
- Symmetry principle
- CPI numerical calation
Companies in Hedge funds:
- Northern trust
- jp
- tesa
- RRD
- DE Shaww
- deulottee
- copal
Research areas:
- degree of freedom, and mathematical Equations used
- Citibank Suzlon deal
- Hedge funds India and USA
- Analysis for merger done by IB
- find Equity holders?
- CFA for hedge funds
- technical analysis
- mutual funds usa in india
- mymv margin maintainence, different type
- boa india
- spv legal and ratings
- greek frm
- oversubscribed
- Euro printing
- NASDAQ, OTC
- freddy and fanny
- credit rating
- nopat
- cfp
- credit ds
- RBI website
- option pricing
- ve nture capitalist vs angel investors
- business plan
- SWOAT
- frm var 2
- best journals in finance
- 'Nonlinear Markov games
