I’ve been socialising a bit, but at 42 I’m the old guy. It appears my old career with SAP is close to the dream job for most of the Grad students I’ve talked to. I must tell them that they’ll never realise that dream if they keep calling it one word, i.e. sap, instead of S A P (three letters). Most of them don’t even know what I mean when I say S A P and finally reply oh you mean sap.
I did meet one older student whose old job is one of my dream jobs. She used to be the investment management for a very high net worth Melbourne family.
For now I got my sights set on a buy side analysts position or something like that. Ideally I’ll get a position to leverage both my business experience and investing and finance skills.

Thanks for the well wishes.
Dean

I did however manage to get an above 80% average. Strategic thinking for me was getting to know the 5 bright sparks in the class, socialising a bit, group think and discussion with identified bright sparks when the assignments came out, which is not cheating but benchmarking your thinking and making sure your assignment didn’t contain something very wrong. It also helped to figure out what the twist/twists were in the question. It’s surprising how you can realise how completely crap your spreadsheet is when compared to bright spark. Interestingly the guy in our class who was most open about his work did the best. But he was pretty smart.

The exams I found were just about doing the questions in the coursenotes and the recommended texts. I think I did all the questions in the investments book and Hull in the first 2 subjects.

I’m not sure if that’s how it still works. Good luck!

Thanks again.
Dean

Good luck in the course.

You will do it on your ear!

Hope you still have time to feed us more of your insights, out here in the investment ether.

Regards

West Wind