Balance Sheet In this article, Shruti CHAND (ESSEC Business School, Grande Ecole Program – Master in Management, 2020-2022) elaborates on the concept of balance sheet This read will help you get started with understanding balance sheet and what it indicates when studying a company. What is a balance sheet? Balance Sheet is one of the most important financial statement that states … Read more
Shareholder’s Equity In this article, Shruti Chand (ESSEC Business School, Master in Management, 2020-2022) elaborates on the concept of Shareholder’s equity. This read will help you get started with understanding shareholder’s equity and its meaning on the books of accounts of companies. Shareholders Equity: Shareholders equity on the Balance Sheet is the amount that the owners of the … Read more
Technical Analysis In this article, Shruti Chand (ESSEC Business School, Master in Management, 2020-2022) elaborates on the concept of technical analysis. This read will help you get started with understanding technical analysis and how it is practiced in today’s world. What is technical analysis? Technical analysis is a tool used to predict future price movements and trends of security. This … Read more
Long-Term Loans In this article, Shruti Chand (ESSEC Business School, Master in Management, 2020-2022) elaborates on long-term loans. This read will help you get started with understanding long-term loans and how it is used in today’s world. Introduction A term loan or long-term loan refers to a loan from a bank for a specific amount of funds with a … Read more
Long-Term Liabilities In this article, Shruti CHAND (ESSEC Business School, Grande Ecole Program – Master in Management, 2020-2022) elaborates on long-term liabilities. This read will help you get started with understanding long-term liabilities and how it is used in making investment decisions. Introduction Long-term liabilities are financial liabilities of the firm that are due in a period more than one … Read more
Accounts Payable In this article, Shruti Chand (ESSEC Business School, Master in Management, 2020-2022) elaborates on the concept of accounts payable. This read will help you get started with understanding accounts payable and its significance. What are accounts payable? Accounts Payable appears in the balance sheet of a company when the company purchases goods or services on credit … Read more
Inventory In this article, Shruti CHAND (ESSEC Business School, Grande Ecole Program – Master in Management, 2020-2022) elaborates on the concept of accounts receivable. This read will help you get started with understanding inventory and its significance. Definition All the raw material that a business uses to produce goods and the ready for sale products that a business … Read more
Accounts Receivable In this article, Shruti CHAND (ESSEC Business School, Grande Ecole Program – Master in Management, 2020-2022) elaborates on the concept of accounts receivable. This read will help you get started with understanding accounts receivable and its significance. Introduction Accounts Receivable appears in the balance sheet of a company when an entity (an individual or a company) … Read more
Rise of SPAC investments as a medium of raising capital In this article, Daksh GARG (ESSEC Business School, Master in Strategy & Management of International Business (SMIB), 2020-2021) talks about the rise of SPAC investments as a medium of raising capital. Imagine someone famous asking you to invest in a company. Chances are, you will … Read more
Pension Funds In this article, Shruti CHAND (ESSEC Business School, Grande Ecole Program – Master in Management, 2020-2022) elaborates on the concept of Pension Funds This read will help you get started with understanding pension funds and its significance. What are pension funds Term pension liability refers to the amount that a company or government owes to the pension … Read more
Long-Term Assets In this article, Shruti CHAND (ESSEC Business School, Grande Ecole Program – Master in Management, 2020-2022) elaborates on long-term assets. This read will help you get started with understanding long-term assets on the balance sheet of a business. Introduction Long-term assets on a balance sheet represent all the assets of a business that are not expected to turn … Read more
Current Assets In this article, Shruti CHAND (ESSEC Business School, Grande Ecole Program – Master in Management, 2020-2022) elaborates on current assets. This read will help you get started with understanding current assets and how it is used in today’s world. Introduction Current asset refers to all the assets of a business that can be converted into cash with ease, … Read more
Robinhood In this article, Shruti CHAND (ESSEC Business School, Grande Ecole Program – Master in Management, 2020-2022) elaborates on Robinhood Markets. This read will help you get started with understanding Robinhood and how it is used in today’s world. Introduction ‘Investing for everyone’ – these are the first words you’d read if you were to visit Robinhood’s website. And … Read more
A New Angle in M&A E-Commerce In this article, Antoine PERUSAT (ESSEC Business School, Global Bachelor of Business Administration, 2019-2023) shares his working experience as an M&A Analyst at a start-Up. The Company Last summer, I worked for two months in London at a company specializing in Venture Capital (VC) of digital assets in the … Read more
In this article, Jayati WALIA (ESSEC Business School, Grande Ecole Program – Master in Management, 2019-2022) presents an overview of popular programming languages used in quantitative finance. Introduction Finance as an industry has always been very responsive to new technologies. The past decades have witnessed the inclusion of innovative technologies, platforms, mathematical models and sophisticated … Read more
In this article, Youssef LOURAOUI (ESSEC Business School, Global Bachelor of Business Administration, 2017-2021) presents Markowitz’s Modern Portfolio Theory, a pioneering framework for understanding the impact of the number of stocks in a portfolio and their covariance relationships on portfolio diversification. We begin by presenting Markowitz’s Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) as the origin of factor … Read more
In this article, Youssef LOURAOUI (ESSEC Business School, Global Bachelor of Business Administration, 2017-2021) discusses the topic of smart beta strategies and especially the debate about its position as an active or passive allocation. Smart beta strategies appear to be in the middle of the polarized asset management industry, which is segmented between active investing … Read more
This article written by Akshit GUPTA (ESSEC Business School, Master in Management, 2019-2022) presents the different hedging strategies based on option contracts. Introduction Hedging is a risk mitigation strategy used by investors reduce the risk in an existing investment. In financial markets, hedging is used as an effective tool by investors to minimize the risk … Read more
In this article, Youssef LOURAOUI (ESSEC Business School, Global Bachelor of Business Administration, 2017-2021) presents the VIX index, which is a financial index that measures the uncertainty in the US equity market. This article is structured as follows: we begin by defining the grounding notions of the VIX index. We then explain the behavior of … Read more
In this article, Youssef LOURAOUI (ESSEC Business School, Global Bachelor of Business Administration, 2017-2021) presents factor investing, which is an investment approach that focuses on distinct performance drivers across asset classes. This article is structured as follows: we begin with the early works of factor investing (market factor). We then delve more in detail on … Read more