Press Release for Finomena[/b]
The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad’s finance and investment club – Beta is organizing “Finomena” - an event on the weekend of 20th and 21st July. The intra-campus event is designed to give the fresh on campus first year students a glimpse into the world of finance and peek their curiosity about the subject.[/b]
The annual two day event involves a plethora of activities including “Bulls Eye” – a trading competition simulating open outcry markets, “Barbarians at the Gate” – a real-time private equity game simulating hostile takeovers of sector firms with the private equity firm raking in the highest profits declared the winner, “FinQuest” – a finance quiz and an introductory session about career avenues and verticals in the financial sector. [/b]
The event will also see Mr Bhavtosh Vajpayee, Managing Director and Head of Equities of Barclays Capital come down to the campus on Saturday for an interactive session with the students. Mr Vajpayee heads the firm’s equity research, distribution and trading businesses in India; prior to this he served as the Regional Head of Technology Research with CLSA in Hong Kong. A noted alumnus of the institute Mr Vajpayee was consistently ranked the number one in Indian technology research for the years spanning 2004 to 2011 by Asia Money. The talk by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur alumnus will be based on “Careers in Finance: Myths and Realities” with the speaker drawing insights from his extensive experience in the finance industry.[/b]
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