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Hedge Fund Accountant was asked...8 March 2016

Who has the final decision on derivatives prices.

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The director.

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This seems to be an invalid question. There are a lot of derivative instruments out there, options, futures, swap and etc and their prices are usually determined by various factors and some could be affected by the supply and demand of the market and for exchanged traded derivative theor market prices can be obtained easily. And i dont think the directors of the company taking position using those instrument have much influence on the price of the derivative. Less

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Trader and investors move the price

Hedge Fund Services, was asked...8 April 2012

What is a Credit default swap?

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A credit default swap (CDS) is a financial swap agreement that the seller of the CDS will compensate the buyer in the event of a loan default or other credit event. The buyer of the CDS makes a series of payments (the CDS "fee" or "spread") to the seller and, in exchange, receives a payoff if the loan defaults. Less

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Credit defulat swaps acts as insurance because it transfer the risk from buyer of CDS to seller of CDS in case of defualt. Seller of CDS pay face value of loan to buyer of CDS. It is actually non isurance product. CDS is not subjected to regulation governing traditional insurance product. Also, investors can buy and sell protection without owning debt and this is called 'Naked Credit Defualt Swaps' Most importantly, the seller is not required to maintain reserves to cover the protection sold Less

Hedge Fund Analyst was asked...7 May 2010

If you were arrested for something that you believed wasn't wrong, what would you do?

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Change the law

Hedge Fund Associate was asked...27 February 2021

Tell me a time when you had to improve a process

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Mentioned the time I automatized some trading

Intern, Hedge Fund was asked...26 November 2022

Why Alantra, why madrid and not london?

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Walk me through the three statements. Depreciation questions. Questions regarding gross profit and ebitda margins. Pitch me a stock. Less

Hedge Fund Services was asked...30 March 2023

Why are you interested in this position?

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Explained interest in markets and opportunity to learn in a dynamic workplace environment. Less

Hedge Fund Accounting was asked...13 July 2015

Three golden rules of the accounting

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Debit what comes in credit what goes out(real account); Debit the receiver credit the giver(personal account); Debit all expenses and losses credit all income and gains(nominal account) Less

Assistant At Hedge Fund was asked...13 August 2014

"Have you ever used a pivot table? What about a pivot chart? Have you used excel?"

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I had excel, pivot charts/tables in my resume, and had already scored perfectly on the excel test. The guy hadn't read anything about me and asked questions already answered. Less