From an educational perspective, financial culture plays a central role in the training of students and early-career professionals. It fosters critical thinking toward financial narratives by corporates, financial institutions, and governments. Beyond technical mastery of valuation methods, risk models, or portfolio theory, financial culture encompasses the ability to interpret markets through historical events, narratives, symbols, and representations conveyed by films, books, and broader cultural artefacts. This objective lies at the core of the SimTrade Blog, which aims to provide accessible yet rigorous content at the intersection of academic finance, market practice, and financial/economic/business literacy. You will find articles about financial culture deals with books, movies, paintings, sculpture…
Improving financial culture is also an effective way to prepare for interviews, as it enables candidates to contextualize technical knowledge, articulate personal opinions on markets and institutions, and demonstrate intellectual curiosity and critical thinking beyond purely quantitative skills.
Top 10 Read Articles about Financial Culture on the SimTrade Blog
▶ Akshit GUPTA Movie Analysis: Margin Call (2011)
▶ Akshit GUPTA Movie Analysis: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
▶ Federico MARTINETTO “Money never sleeps” – Wall Street Movie
▶ Marie POFF Film analysis: The Big Short
▶ William LONGIN Religious imagery in finance: analysis of the book ‘Money’ by Émile Zola
▶ Mohamed Dhia KHAIROUNI Analyse de film : Margin Call (2011)
▶ Nakul PANJABI Charging Bull on Wall Street
▶ Akshit GUPTA Movie Analysis: Other People’s Money (1991)
▶ Marie POFF Film analysis: Rogue Trader
▶ Akshit GUPTA Movie Analysis: The Hummingbird Project (2018)
SimTrade Editorial Picks in Financial Culture
In addition to the most read articles, we would like to highlight the following articles for their strong educational value in quantitative finance, corporate finance, and financial risk modeling.
▶ Lucas BAURIANNE The Golden Boy: Une immersion dans l’univers des banques d’investissement
▶ Nakul PANJABI Art as an asset class
▶ Marie POFF Book review: Barbarians at the gate