Finance & Consulting - Sixth Form FAQ:

nice! Mn is right too in the sense that entering into an option is generally cheap exposure to the underlying so you're utilising this notion of leverage, and these derivative gives more leeway into creative though process.

nice to see junior students taking an early interest in finance, although i hope you don't want to enter into trading.

Are you like a teacher to young Trapz and Mn? Lol

nice! Mn is right too in the sense that entering into an option is generally cheap exposure to the underlying so you're utilising this notion of leverage, and these derivative gives more leeway into creative though process.

nice to see junior students taking an early interest in finance, although i hope you don't want to enter into trading.

This doesn't really get to the heart of why you would want to use an option. Why not just go long or short on MFST?

It's all about leverage while minimising downside

Loooooools do you think you're a big man or something.

Prince, do you know how competitive the BP graduate scheme is, where you trade commodities? And other benefits of joining such a scheme would be great to hear, e.g exit opps

Will econ and stats at a target keep absolutely all the front office options open? Or will I be pigeonholed into IBD. Because i wanna do research but I'm not sure whether you need an econ degree for that

Lol, how are you going to be pigeonholed to IBD?

It's fine man, literally what I have written is the case - outside of quantitative finance positions your degree subject is pretty much moot.

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Coolio, thanks again. How do you respond so quickly?

TSR app is on my home screen

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THE TARGETS

(These universities together represent anywhere from 70-80% of front office UK grad intakes)

University of Oxford
University of Cambridge
London School of Economics and Political Science
University College London
Imperial College London
University of Warwick


THE SEMI-TARGETS

(These universities represent the next 15-30% of most intakes)

Durham University
University of Nottingham
University of Bristol
University of Bath
Cass Business School

(Arguably, there’s a slight gap at this point based on grad/summer class data)

University of Edinburgh
University of Manchester
University of St Andrews
King’s College London
University of Exeter


HONORABLE MENTIONS

Loughborough University (an emerging semi-target)
University of York (also somewhat of a semi-target)
University of Leeds (very strong alumni network in the city, but not quite semi-target status)
University of Southampton (similar to Leeds)

Apart from these, if grades don’t permit getting into a university listed above try a Russell Group or a good non-Russell Group university with lower entry requirements

Top targets:Oxbridge, LSE, Warwick, UCL and Imperial (UCL and Warwick are completely dominating the IB job market right now)

Semi-targets (banks visit, still a stream of talent into IB every year) Durham, Bristol, Notts, Edinburgh, St Andrews

(Gap)

KCL, Cass, Manchester, Birmingham, Bath
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You used to have Edinburgh and St Andrews in the second tier with Cass and Bath in the third tier. Why have they switched?

In regards to what subject to study at uni for some places it DOES matter whether or not you pick a finance related degree, for example: http://www.santanderukgraduates.com/graduates.php

Eh, Santander is like 1 exception.

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There were plenty more from other places but can't remember which ones exactly.

There were plenty more from other places but can't remember which ones exactly.