You have a birthday cake and have exactly 3 slices to cut it into 8 equal pieces. How do you do it?
Junior Portfolio Manager Interview Questions
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Are bond prices affected more by a yield change at high or low yields?
Brain Teaser: you have 7 seemingly identical looking balls, only 1 is slightly lighter than the other 6. You are given a scale. How can you find the 1 lighter ball is you are only allowed to use the scale twice.
If you had 100 million dollars to do whatever with it you like, what would you do? Would you invest it? If so, what would be your first trade?
If you had 2 6-sided dice, what's the probability you get a 7?
If a bond is trading above par, the YTM is greater, less, or equal to the market's yield?
What are the benefits of a big bank vs small firm?
About the market? Duration & Convexity of a bond? Technical questions about SQL. A group exercise about picking 6 people from a list to create a society. That's all I could remember
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Brain teasers. One interviewer will try to stump you with "tough" questions like "which bonds have positive convexity" but this is just a badly worded trick question
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