Brain Teasers How many degrees (if any) are between the hour hand and the

minute hand when the time is 3:15?

A snail is climbing up a 10 ft pole. Each day he climbs 3 ft and each night he sleeps. While sleeping he slides down 1 ft. When will the snail reach the top of the pole?

Answers 1/4 of 1/12 of 360° or 7.5°

2/3 of the way through the 5th day

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Quantitative Finance SocietyQuantitative Finance Society

Kick-Off MeetingFall 2012

What We Do Portfolios – Hedge Fund Style Trading Competitions – MIT, Upgrade Capital Discuss Markets & Specific Industries

Regular meetings: Monday common hour, T200 Guest speakers: Thursday evenings

S&T, Asset Management, Quant, Risk Networking Opportunities, Alumni

The Board E-Board

President: Gabriel Wong Vice President: Anant Garg Head of Portfolios: Jay Bhalodi Markets Chair: Matt Giacobbe Secretary: Preston Parnell Marketing Chair: Lilly Guo External Relations Chair: Karishma Thakrar Treasurer: Yvan Scher

Market Update: The Macro View

U.S. Macro Condition Economic Reports Bond Updates The FED

Europe/Asia

Commodities/FX Updates

Our Portfolios

Name Portfolio Manager

Value Equity Matt Giacobbe

Global Macro Krishna Yarra

Derivatives Jay Bhalodi

Asset Allocation Gabriel Wong

Multi-Strategy Anant Garg

Technicals & Algo Yvan Scher

Our Portfolios Positions

Portfolio Manager Traders

ThinkorSwim used as a platform to trade If interested in joining a team, come speak to our

PMs and email qfs@stern.nyu.edu Email your resume, a paragraph explaining why you’re

interested, and the portfolio(s) you wish to join Deadline to apply is this Wednesday at 11:59pm We will conduct interviews next week to pick candidates

Membership Benefits S&T Resume Book sent to recruiters Name appears on website Access to library QFS tutorials (e.g. trading

strategies), Equity Research, QFS Models Gain consistent knowledge on the markets and

on specific industries or desks Invitation to Alumni Mingle Social events (poker, etc.)

Previous Events Volatility with Professor Brenner (creator of VIX) Technicals & Algorithmic Trading Market-Making & Options with Paul Staneski, Head

of Derivatives at Credit Suisse Anatomy of a Trade with Andrew Berger (Goldman

Sachs S&T) Fixed Income Markets with Jeff Qiu (Credit Suisse

S&T) and Neil Mehra (Barclays S&T) Investment Banking with Professor Charles Murphy,

previous head of Credit Suisse Investment Banking Resume Workshop

Our Alumni Investment Banks, Asset Managers, Hedge Funds

Questions?

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