My name is Ben Deverell, and I’m a career commercial banker with roles spanning operations, risk, strategy and business management. I’m currently a senior member of our Financial Institutions business, supporting clients with their financing, investment, risk management and banking needs. To any current students looking to start a career in finance: the financial industry is a great place to work and I…
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The ICMA Centre at Henley Business School has an international reputation for undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education for the financial markets.
Established in 1991 with funding provided by the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) in Zurich, the Centre is housed in a purpose-built modernist building with state-of-the-art facilities including three dealing rooms running Thomson Reuters , Bloomberg and Datastream products, where students learn how markets really function and apply theory through simulations. The Centre recently celebrated the opening of its new extended facilities funded by a £5m donation from ICMA which includes an additional flagship 40-seat dealing room sponsored by Thomson Reuters. The Centre also boasts two lecture theatres, several seminar rooms, a dedicated research area, informal seating areas, café bars and Bloomberg TV.
Emailing the CEO of Deutsche Bank and asking for a hug… – by Cameron Pfiffer
Cameron Pfiffer, studying MSc Corporate Finance at the ICMA Centre, blogs about his first weeks at the ICMA Centre and using the Bloomberg Terminals for good and evil. One of the reasons I chose to come to the ICMA Centre was the facilities – the building and the neighboring Henley Business School (which the ICMA Centre…
Beijing study trip: My top 4 experiences from my trip to Tsinghua University – by Vicky Lee
Vicky Lee, from South Korea, is a recent graduate of the MSc International Securities, Investment and Banking course at the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School. The ICMA Centre offers three scholarship opportunities each year for students to visit Tsinghua University as part of university’s annual Summer Program, and Vicky was one of a select few…
Could the result of matches in the European Football Championship influence the UK EU Referendum?
by Adrian R Bell and Dina Ghanma “Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” – Bill Shankly If we are to agree with the great Bill Shankly, then we would not be surprised…
FUND RATING – by ICMA Centre alumnus Steve Gruppetta
Steve Gruppetta studied MSc in International Securities, Investment and Banking at the ICMA Centre, and is now a finance professional and a consultant within EY’s Transaction Advisory Services after joining the practice from the asset management industry. What if we rate investment funds? “Steve, this supposedly well-managed fund is losing money! My financial planner said it…
Careers in finance: 5 tips from Reading alumni Richard Perry
Richard Perry, Market Analyst at Hantec Markets and University of Reading alumni, blogs about his return to the university as corporate sponsor of the Finance Society, and gives his tips and advice to students wanting to enter the field of trading. I recently completed a course of seminars at the University of Reading during which I taught a group of…
Case study: Jasmine Mehta
Hi, my name is Jasmine Mehta and I graduated in July 2014 having studied MSc in Capital Markets, Regulation and Compliance at the ICMA Centre, part of Henley Business School, in Reading, UK. Post Financial Crisis in 2008 and Sovereign Crisis in 2010, the lesson of more Responsible Investments on part of asset owners and more…
CFA Research Challenge 2016
Third year student Dina Ghanma talks about her experience competing alongside other ICMA Centre students in the annual CFA Research Challenge. This year, and for the first time, the ICMA Centre proudly participated in the CFA Institute Research Challenge, a global equity valuation competition involving 70 countries and over 4,000 students worldwide. [1] In 2013, our…
Powerball: Did the US accidentally run the world’s largest ever Behavioural Finance experiment?
by Chris Godfrey, Sessional Lecturer at the ICMA Centre where his many research interests include Behavioural Finance. Last week, the world was seized with the spectacle of long lines of Americans queuing to buy tickets for the Powerball lottery, spurred on by the prospect of winning the largest jackpot in history. The eventual advertised annuity…
Troubles in Chinese Stock Markets – by Xiaoyan Zhou
Xiaoyan Zhou, PhD student at the ICMA Centre, blogs about the recent volatility in Chinese stock markets and the effect of government influence on trading. All over the news it was reported that Chinese stock markets crashed in the first few trading days of the New Year last week following the recent release of weak manufacturing…