Thursday, January 29, 2009

I Love NYC

The MBA life is exciting, you go to school everyday and u dwell into something fascinating. The financial crisis is presenting something to talk about by the hour. I differ to many people who think that this is a bad time to be a finance guy. For me as a student in Finance, this is exciting, agree that these are sad times but this will force us to cement the foundations of our financial, legal, democratic platforms/systems. I believe in the saying "When the going gets tough, the tough get going". As for investing opportunities there are a hell lot of them, difficult to pick the right firm. I guess we need to pick those with low debt and a lot of cash and an evergreen business. It is difficult to find many in this category. But following these old sayings would not hurt, "CASH IS KING" - "GOLD IS GOLD, IT NEVER GETS OLD", Oil around $35/bbl also is a good opportunity.


Studies aside, I am finding difficult to spend time partying, I have not partied lately, it has to change and it will change. Now I have a very good reason to party, I was part of the McGill Team, which won the regionals for the CFA Global Research Challenge, Now we go to NYC to compete with the other winners from NA regionals, if we win in NY, we go to London for Global Finals, All expenses paid for. I am looking forward to the trip. Hopefully, My situation with Passport renewal will be resolved ahead of time, or else I will be extremely disappointed to miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to compete and have fun. Yes having fun is key, we had a great team, we had our ups and downs but we pulled it together, we had a lot of fun during this project and that was the key and Hard Work always pays off.

Chao,
Sachin