EFS @ Birkbeck

Economics + Finance Society at Birkbeck, University of London.

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Join us at 18:00 (GMT) on 21st October for a special talk with Ofcom Economist and Birkbeck alumni, Sinéad Boultwood.

Head over to our brand new website (link in bio👀), and be sure to register now for our very first in person event of the year. 📈📺

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Watch this exclusive "Hedgeye Investing Summit" interview between short seller Carson Block, Founder of Muddy Waters, and Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough

https://t.co/JnA25yrnR9

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In this episode of DoubleLine Capital, Jeffrey Gundlach sits down virtually with CEO and Co-Founder of Real Vision, Raoul Pal.

https://t.co/bbLaUUakvd

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Subscribe to Professor Galloway's weekly blog to read engaging articles on tech and finance

https://t.co/4YV7Oczzjo

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Net Interest is a newsletter with a weekly issues focusing on different themes in the financial sector - definitely one to subscribe to!

https://t.co/oyK0i2oLR6

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Listen in to this roundtable with five portfolio managers, discussing the risk-return characteristics of this large, diverse asset class.

https://t.co/02zLWQuoTu

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Bethany McLean discusses the importance of creating a narrative in this insightful podcast by @tkppodcast

https://t.co/udjRpIu67V

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What is a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)? What is a blank check company? Should you invest in SPACs, and how do they work? Learn more about these tems with Patrick Boyle, a fund manager, a university professor and former investor.

https://t.co/7vGxzpvSaJ

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Here's the end of year memo from Howard Marks, co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management

https://t.co/zd7f74njMn

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Professional poker player, psychologist and author of two New York Times best-sellers, Maria Konnikova discusses her mentors, making decisions in environments of uncertainty, the importance of reflection, cooling down your emotions and Sherlock Holmes.

https://t.co/Exx5cXlly4

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Interested in asset management? Get career advice on specialisation in this conversation between Howard Marks and Armen Ponassian.

https://t.co/YBaQLi3zdZ

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Hi everyone, we are pleased to announce the winner of the 2020/2021 EFS Investment Challenge. With only a tiny margin difference, Matthew W Eagles has managed to make the biggest return with Guglielmo Polizzotto and Jason Jacques Willems finishing second and third respectively.

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Nassim Taleb, New York University distinguished professor of risk engineering, discusses what he sees as misconceptions about the COVID pandemic and comments on the Federal Reserve's shift in monetary policy. He speaks with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker

https://t.co/cvOZKEOmW0

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Learn to communicate like a pro using these 4 brain hacks by former presidential candidate Andrew Yang.

https://t.co/rttKuTMf99

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Richard Koo is the Chief Economist at the Nomura Research institute, and is well known for having popularised the concept of the "Balance Sheet Recession" drawing on his work from Japan’s post-bubble era

https://t.co/YuczckAOH1

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Join us next week for our virtual Christmas quiz and be in with the chance of winning a £20 Amazon voucher!

Register now at https://t.co/S2srup9SRL

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Returns of all participants have been affected to some degree. We would like to apologise to those being affected. We know how hard you have all been working on your portfolios, and we wanted to do everything possible to rectify this.
Thank you for your understanding. 3/3

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An important Investment Challenge update:
Hi everyone. We would like to announce that after a review conducted by Jason Jacques Willems, who is also a contestant in this year's challenge, some issues were found in calculations of the returns of the portfolios. 1/3

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We have addressed the issue and re-calculated portfolios' returns. Henceforth new leaderboards have come up, which we have updated on our website. The fundamental problem was cash holdings acting as balancing figure and fee was not applied for a sale of the investment. 2/3

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Get an overview of the current state of financial markets from NYU professor Aswath Damodaran by clicking the link below

https://t.co/eO9G2glaY1