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Heading into 2020, many companies are sitting on large amounts of cash to invest. They’ve been investing in share buybacks, which has the potential to artificially boost share prices. This can explain why the markets continue to break record highs despite earnings growth slowing down. Share buybacks have been such a widely used tool thatContinue reading “2020 Corporate Investment Outlook”

In a previous post I made, I used WeWork and Saudi Aramco as two examples to show how Behavioral Finance can help financiers understand the psychology behind things like IPO’s. Both of these companies and their respective IPO processes merit a deeper look from the perspective of Behavioral Finance as there are many more conceptsContinue reading “WeWork and Saudi Aramco: IPOs from a Behavioral Finance Perspective”

For the past few weeks, I have been migrating my initial stock/options calculator from excel to a full VB.Net project. This has been a challenging, but very rewarding experience because of how gratifying it is to use the skills I have learned at work towards building a financial program of my own. It is builtContinue reading “Financial Calculator VB.Net Application”

Recently, I’ve come across Jane Street’s archive of puzzles; ranging from riddles, math, chess, and other quantitative problems. These have been challenging to say the least, but a lot of fun to figure out. Jane Street is a proprietary trading firm that engages in market making and arbitrage. I figured that these puzzles would giveContinue reading “Jane Street Puzzles – Hooks #5”

In my final semester at Seton Hall, I enrolled in a relatively new course that focused on Behavioral Finance. I figured it would give me an interesting perspective by drawing connections to psychology and the markets. The course did so much more than just that. It became apparent to me that the concepts that defineContinue reading “Behavioral Finance”

This past summer I decided to challenge myself by reading as many finance-related books as I could within the 3 months of vacation I had. It was a fascinating and insightful experience to say the least! The first of these books was “The Accidental Investment Banker” by Jonathan A. Knee. I chose this book becauseContinue reading ““The Accidental Investment Banker” Book Review”

For my first post, I want to share a project I have been working on and am continually working to improve. It is a basic calculator for valuing stock/option positions. Currently, the program is able to calculate Cost Basis, Total Equity, Total Return ($/%), and Targeted Numbers. On the options side of things, it canContinue reading “Stock/Options Calculator”