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Is the Bloomberg Assesment Test helpful?
I saw that it has various important topics like IB, LR, B-terminal, etc.
I was looking at a prep strategy and I think to start with one should work on 3 hrs session on day 1 as follows:
Strategy for exam taking, freebies by me, time bound gaming, exam score report card, etc 30 minutes
LR, Quant and Verbal (1 set of questions and strategy for each like geometry, prob, reading comprehension, critical reasoning, table making) 45 minutes hours
B-terminal RIC ticker data from Bloomberg, importing on excel, shortcuts, basic idea about terminals like Factset, capital IQ, etc 15 minutes
New of Financial Markets / Chart of the day / Importance of federal reserve and market direction / reading bloomberg.com / reuter.com / etc 15 minutes
FRM L2 Market / Credit risk soft introduction 15 minutes (can do away with)
Investment Banking 30 minutes (EV, EBITDA, transaction vs trading, rating effect on spreds, Share buy back, monte carlo, effect of p/e on acq, synergy, google taking motorolla, ipo facebook, etc more from Corporate Finance CFA L2)
Advanced Valuation specials on patents, sector specific adjustments, apple-apple comparison, FCFE, FCFF, projections, intuitive understanding of formula, computing CFO from various methods, etc 30 minutes (Equity CFA L2)
Day 2: 3hrs
Accounting (Merger, Inter corporate investments, etc)
Adv Equity (formulas understanding) like Residual income, Economic value added, etc
Adv economics (Economics for valuation, currency forwards, forward bias index, numerical)
Each Question of sample tests (1hours)
Financial Markets : All instruments questions, ad hoc questions (1 hours) / CDO/ MBS/ CDS / hedging using futures / call writing index / vol index / portfolio of comodity + equity + debt / US treasury rates interpretation
FRM Joker card one question each: Greeks (questions), Black Scholes (logical question), monte carlo (numerical), Value at Risk, normal distributions / Log Normal distributions / Yield curve (most imp) / beta query (beta dependency vs market dependency)
Mock exam for home (1 hrs paper for home)
Subject wise classification:
Investment Banking
Advanced Equity valuations
Portfolio adv
AI adv
Equity Analysis
Projecting various elements
Monte carlo
WACC
Beta
Indices
Balance sheet
Importance of d/ebitda
Rating agencies
Sector analysis
I saw that it has various important topics like IB, LR, B-terminal, etc.
I was looking at a prep strategy and I think to start with one should work on 3 hrs session on day 1 as follows:
Strategy for exam taking, freebies by me, time bound gaming, exam score report card, etc 30 minutes
LR, Quant and Verbal (1 set of questions and strategy for each like geometry, prob, reading comprehension, critical reasoning, table making) 45 minutes hours
B-terminal RIC ticker data from Bloomberg, importing on excel, shortcuts, basic idea about terminals like Factset, capital IQ, etc 15 minutes
New of Financial Markets / Chart of the day / Importance of federal reserve and market direction / reading bloomberg.com / reuter.com / etc 15 minutes
FRM L2 Market / Credit risk soft introduction 15 minutes (can do away with)
Investment Banking 30 minutes (EV, EBITDA, transaction vs trading, rating effect on spreds, Share buy back, monte carlo, effect of p/e on acq, synergy, google taking motorolla, ipo facebook, etc more from Corporate Finance CFA L2)
Advanced Valuation specials on patents, sector specific adjustments, apple-apple comparison, FCFE, FCFF, projections, intuitive understanding of formula, computing CFO from various methods, etc 30 minutes (Equity CFA L2)
Day 2: 3hrs
Accounting (Merger, Inter corporate investments, etc)
Adv Equity (formulas understanding) like Residual income, Economic value added, etc
Adv economics (Economics for valuation, currency forwards, forward bias index, numerical)
Each Question of sample tests (1hours)
Financial Markets : All instruments questions, ad hoc questions (1 hours) / CDO/ MBS/ CDS / hedging using futures / call writing index / vol index / portfolio of comodity + equity + debt / US treasury rates interpretation
FRM Joker card one question each: Greeks (questions), Black Scholes (logical question), monte carlo (numerical), Value at Risk, normal distributions / Log Normal distributions / Yield curve (most imp) / beta query (beta dependency vs market dependency)
Mock exam for home (1 hrs paper for home)
Subject wise classification:
Investment Banking
Advanced Equity valuations
Portfolio adv
AI adv
Equity Analysis
Projecting various elements
Monte carlo
WACC
Beta
Indices
Balance sheet
Importance of d/ebitda
Rating agencies
Sector analysis
