Educational Articles

Creating a balanced portfolio is analogous to constructing a robust house: each component plays a crucial role in ensuring its stability and resilience. In the world of finance, portfolio diversification stands as the cornerstone of prudent investment strategy; at its essence, diversification involves spreading investments across various asset classes to mitigate risk and maximize returns. […]

After doing a master’s degree in Finance, there are many career opportunities one can access. However, the choice for the most competitive candidates, who attend the best schools, usually boil down to either Investment Banking or Private Equity. Today we will take a look at these options in order to understand what a career in […]

Introduction Today we will analyze one of the most contemporary and dynamic subjects – sustainable investments. Green investing or Sustainable investing (sometimes known as ethical investing, socially responsible investing or impact investing), is multidimensional but still focuses on financial performance. Incorporating the environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards into the investment process implies the implementation […]

An ETF (exchange-traded fund) is a passive investment fund that trades on stock exchanges that replicates a stock index, a bond index, a sector, commodities or other assets such as cryptos. ETFs are one of the best instruments to diversify and reduce the investment risk. As said before, ETFs are exchanged in the stock market […]

Nowadays, there is a growing tendency of younger people seeking financial advice on social media. Platforms such as TikTok have evolved into financial information hubs, with a significant number of users participating in debates using the hashtag #FinTok. However, while social media can provide useful insights, it also presents concerns due to the frequency of […]

Risk is one of the main features that characterizes the entire financial world, and it heavily influences the type of security that investors will invest into as well as the particular kind of strategy they will follow while doing it. With respect to this last concept, it is important to know that risk is strongly […]

Stocks’ prices are affected by many factors that cannot be controlled all at once, mainly we can think about the most influential ones as a group of how investors feel about that certain stock. Earnings reports must be published by publicly traded companies in the U.S on a quarterly and on an annual basis. These […]

WHAT IS A STOCK? A stock (or share) is a share in the ownership of a company, which means that every shareholder has ownership of the company in proportion to his share.  If the company is a listed company, its shares are sold in the stock market. The stock market is the place where shares […]

As our second educational article, the portfolio management division decided to introduce the topic of value analysis. There are many ways to analyze the value of a company; some serve the purpose of obtaining a figure representing the total value of a firm, whilst others are purely for the use of traders and retail investors, […]