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Today we would like to list the most important skill sets that financial planners should have to be trusted with critical decisions about clients’ investments. To begin with, we’re assuming that the preliminaries educational and experiential financial planning qualifications of the potential financial planners have been met before getting to this stage. Listens: giving financial advise is a Read More …
The International Governance and Risk Institute (GovRisk) organises Public and In-House Training Courses aimed to give comprehensive advice and support on the UK Bribery Act 2010 to individuals, companies and organisations, working in a large number of jurisdictions. The UK Bribery Act 2010, which came into force in July 2011, introduced the new corporate offence of “failure to prevent bribery”. Read More …
The routine of a junior derivatives trader typical workday may sound boring, but every day in the market brings new challenges, almost always exciting. As a derivatives trader, your typical day will involve waking up and getting to the office, usually approximately a couple of hours before the market opens. You’ll be logging into your PC, Read More …
Let’s imagine: you read a Stockbroker job description that you liked and for which you consider yourself “fit and proper”. What to do next? First, read your CV all over again. Obviously, you know it by heart, it’s your life, but try to read it again while roleplaying, as if you were the recruiter that Read More …
Changes in life happen. Sometimes we realise, mid-life, that the career path we had chosen is not giving us the happiness we imagined. Sometimes we just can’t think of going on doing the current job any longer, and we need to understand how to change career and get to do something we really like. Changing careers often implies Read More …
When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change by Mohamed El-Erian won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award in 2008. The author, Mohamed El-Erian has the global perspective of an Egyptian long resident in the US, whose area of greatest expertise is Latin America. His success, as an academic who came relatively Read More …
The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment by Martin Ford won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award in 2015. In this book, Martin Ford explains how computers can now work things out for themselves, proceeding by trial and error to develop their own programs according to their needs – in “a Read More …
If you’re preparing your Stock broker interview questions and answers, first of all, make sure you’re fully aware of the job’s basics, that we summarised in our FAQ articles “Broker vs trader: what is the difference between these two job titles“, “Stock market vs commodity market: the 3 major differences between them” and, obviously, what the Read More …
Poor Economics, A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, by Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award in 2011. Having worked for more than 15 years with the poor in dozens of countries of all the continents, pioneering hundreds of randomized control trials with their lab, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee’s Read More …
Lords of Finance: 1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award in 2009. In Lords of Finance, Liaquat Ahamed illustrates with a compelling narrative, accessible economics and vivid insights that the Great Depression was not the result of mysterious forces that governments Read More …