Come and see me at the PMI Karachi Chapter monthly event where I will give my reboot chat later this evening at 6:30 pm at the Regent Plaza Hotel. Please see event brochure or the PMI site for more details.
Category: Alchemy stuff
ICAAP Training Workshops – 3 days – Langkawi, Malaysia, March 2011
Two ICAAP training workshops, three days, one magical location. Our second set of workshops covering exotic financial topics in breathtaking tropical locations. A focus on ICAAP – Pillar II risks primarily ALM and Liquidity Risk Capital using Interest Rate Simulations. The two day main event is preceded by a single day foundation workshop on Internal…
Despicable me – lighten up your weekend
Superbad, superdad. For all those superbad dads out there, if there is one movie you watch this weekend, make sure its Dispicable me.. After going through Tangled (nice), Megamind (not worth it) and Despicable me over the last three weekends, there is only one clear winner… Steve Carrel and the team do a phenomenal job…
Despicable me – lighten up your weekend
Superbad, superdad. For all those superbad dads out there, if there is one movie you watch this weekend, make sure its Dispicable me.. After going through Tangled (nice), Megamind (not worth it) and Despicable me over the last three weekends, there is only one clear winner… Steve Carrel and the team do a phenomenal job…
Finance Training Course – Traffic Update
Traffic finally picks up at Finance Training Courses and gets over the pre-Christmas slump levels. It looks as if we will finally break 20,000 page views and about 8,000 visitors again this month in January. Weekly numbers are now running at 1,800 visitors and 5,000 pageviews per week. [To answer Jay’s question, the graph below…
Finance Training Courses – Exotics Financial Topics, Exotic Tropical Locations
And now for something truly off the beaten track. Exotic Financial Courses run in exotic tropical locations with trainers dressed in even more exotic Batik and Hawaiian shirts. The first in this series is the ALM and Liquidity Risk workshop in Subang, Malaysia in January, quickly followed by the ALM for ICAAP and Interest Rate…
Readers club and the first online used books market place in Karachi
Here is a guest post by Usman Siddiqui about Readers Club and Kitabain (The one and only online old bookstore in Karachi). I still remember the day when Usman first walked into our offices bursting with the zeal to do something, anything that was different and life changing in Karachi. This is his and Jawad’s…
Finance Careers: A tale of two startups.
You will never know how wrong you were till you actually do it with your own hands and fail. If you are really lucky you get a chance to compare your performance against a benchmark that you can relate to. I was wrong and I was lucky. My first two ventures were inspired by Luke…
Career choices: From banking and consulting to Startup land in southern California
New York 1999. I am a business school student with a combination of dangerous ideas, irrelevant experiences, incomplete education and out of control ambitions. In any other country I would be institutionalized. In New York City, I am the startup guy, the dude with the business plan. While a few leads from Goldman and an…
Career Choices: From Columbia to Goldman and back – Switching from consulting to investment banking …
So here I was with an offer letter from Columbia, no job (I quit) and no money to cover my Ivy League business school tuitions. Back in 1998 these were days where your email account only caught a handful of emails every day, unlike the raging horde of spam that lands every morning in my…