Investment Banking
- Investment Banking Industry: Overview, daily responsibilities, and exit options
- Financial Statement Analysis: How the three statements link and projections
- Metrics and Ratios: FCF, EV, EBITDA, EBIT, WACC, Beta, P/E, EPS
- Valuing a Company: Intrinsic and market-relative valuation
- Pitchbook Building
- Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and the merger model
- Leveraged Buyouts (LBO)
- Initial Public Offerings (IPO)
- Bankruptcy and Restructuring
Global Investment Research
- Equity Research: Macro, sector, company fundamentals and indices
- Credit Research: Corporate debt, credit derivatives, and investment recommendations
- Economic Research: Macroeconomic forecasts for economic activity and interest rates
- Portfolio Strategy: Market views and forecasts on asset and industry allocation
- Commodities Research: Oil, natural gas, base metals, precious metals and agriculture
Capital Markets
- Financial Markets and Roles
- Equities Markets: Types of equities, financial information and analysis, market movements, pitching techniques and company-specific equity research
- Debt Markets: Government, municipal, syndicated, high-yield, bilateral and high-grade bonds, private placements, leveraged finance, sovereign bond yields
- Derivatives: Futures, options, forwards
- Sales vs. Trading: Strategies and technical analysis
- Central Banks and Policy: Roles, monetary and fiscal policy
- Treasury: Escrow, liquidity, bank functions and Basel