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what was your UAI?

Take the option with the best exit opportunities - Comm/Law. You can move from ibanking into the big 4. You can't move from the big 4 into ibanking. The big 4 cadetship is no where near as glorious as it sounds - any chump can score one of these gigs. Taking a standard BCom degree is...

For corporate finance: Comm/Law at USYD or UNSW. For trading/structuring: Mathematics/Statistics/Actuarial

None. Smoke some :tree: for the next year. :hippie::hippie::hippie:

Well I was more referring to traders and salespeople. You will find the odd corporate finance guy that doesn't mind what he does (particularly if he has access to a lot of blow)

consulting is broadly defined. OP needs to be more specific.

total comp for GS came out yesterday. The monkey's in IBD are very pissed off. If it wasn't worth working in IBD last year, it is an absolute joke this year.

None (seriously)

I'd say that it's an epic INferiority complex. For these individuals, their sense of worth is tied to a transcript and a looming job offer. This formulaic path in life is well documented by psychologists. IB wannabes have deluded themselves into believing that a particular job will give them...

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What is transfer pricing? I believe this topic has not been discussed in enough depth on these forums :)

I challenge you to go out and price real world options, if it is indeed 'easy'.

predictions of movements in international money markets does not require MX1. If someone does know what it requires, please let me know.

An understanding of the Black Scholes Model requires knowledge of stochastic differential equations...

This is the best option. Bcom from a Group of 8 uni and then first class honours. This option becomes all the more relevant considering the change surrounding global business.

La Rouche is a Douche. Of course if we opposed free trade and adopted protectionism, none of this would have happened. It's a little hard to have a financial 'crisis' when no one actually has any money to begin with.

"Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another." - Gordon Gekko

Australian dollars held by foreign nations as a percentage of the total money supply are no where near the levels the US experiences. What would screw the US is a dumping of their currency. The whole 'conversion into gold' effort is a laughable example of Islamic fundamentalism permeating into...

Probabilistically, a small number of people will always accurately pick future market outcomes. I have discussed this topic with colleagues on many occasions. If you make a public statement regarding future market events, your payoff structure is as follows: 1. You are correct and everyone...

If all participants could accurately predict what would happen in the future, you would have a much less volatile market that would hover around an equilibrium. You seem to be forgetting that for someone to win money, another person has to lose money. Let's say that every market participant...