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The Career choices I have made – my early professional consulting career: The path of an entrepreneur

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Jawwad

28 December 1992 is the day when I said no to my first and only job offer after 15 years of extremely expensive education. It was late evening on Chundrigar Road (our financial down town) with the December chill lurking around the corner making the world looking a little bit greyer than it really was….

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The Swan Thieves – The other novel by Elizabeth Kostova

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Jawwad

In my old age I am getting crankier and difficult to work with. Little things set me off like a fire cracker. And every now then I take a reaction to heart and go hide behind my laptop. When time gets tough this laptop hiding game becomes even more interesting and frequent. Two months ago…

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On doubling web traffic – guidance note for a new hire and the Adsense addiction

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Jawwad

My state of mind these days is just completely dominated by traffic. Anything to add a few more visitors to Learning Corporate Finance and book a few more sales through my Online Finance Course Store. Once upon a time, before I met Zafar Khan, I was a normal guy. I would get up at 5…

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ICAAP: Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process Crash Course

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Jawwad

Capital Adequacy was the principal message of the Basel II framework.  However a static regulator driven capital adequacy measure was deemed insufficient to manage the risk profile and capital requirements of an active bank in today’s risk environment creating the need for an internal and invasive assessment of the capital profile of a bank.  Ideally…

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20,000 page views, Eight thousand visitors and 200 dollars in revenues – Corporate Finance Blog, November update

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Jawwad

Some of you have been following the Learning Corporate Finance saga on this blog for the last few months. It is a story that started in February of this year when I finally gave in and started uploading content we generate as part of my risk training practice online. Rather than doing video which is…

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Forecasting Interest Rates and Applications workshop: December 22nd, 23rd

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Jawwad

Interest Rate Forecasting and Modeling workshop The workshop is aimed at treasury, risk and fixed income investors who use interest rate forecasting tools for arbitrage, ALM, risk or credit policy decisions. Teaching methodology is based on intensive hands on model building and application cases. The workshop covers four different families of interest rate models starting…

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A risk applications textbook with a difference: Risk Frameworks, 2nd Edition is here

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Jawwad

Ever since I started running risk management training workshops and teaching Executive MBA students, I had been looking for a textbook that walked the middle ground between plain English, as few mathematical equations as possible and exactly the right topics I needed to teach. It had to be concise and to the point yet cover…

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Business Plan Cheat Sheet – Two business plans up for a half baked sale

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Jawwad

We learn by doing, seeing and at time imitating. For that is what it took for me to write my first business plan. The course that made it happen was Glen Hubbard’s Entrepreneurial Finance at Columbia Business School. For the past three terms I had been working on the outline of an idea and using…

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I quit.

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Jawwad

A few months short of forty, my most recent product launch almost put me into the ground. While the details are hazy and there are many candidates responsible for making me miss a week of work, the conclusion this afternoon was clear. I am too old for the life I have been leading the last…

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How not to move your blog in ten easy steps…

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Jawwad

It would be funny if I hadn’t lived through it. When I first started thinking about moving Learning Corporate Finance from its original home I didn’t think the move would take more than two weeks. A week to pack up, research a good SEO optimized name, another to regroup, redploy and redirect. A quick dry…

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