Pristine completed financial modeling training at Mizuho Bank with excellent feedback from participants. The four day, training essentially covered the basics and advanced, concepts and features, of excel with sector specific modeling.
In sector specific modeling participants interacted with the experts from the industry and learned the know-hows of the industry specific models.

Following sectors were covered [...]

Financial Modeling is becoming the prerequisite for any job in the finance domain. Here in Pristine we have developed a comprehensive course which starts from the basics of modeling using MS Excel to the advanced topics such as valuation, derivatives modeling etc. We have recorded a small session to give an idea of what [...]

What is Financial Modelling?
Financial modeling is the task of building an abstract representation of a financial decision making situation. This is a mathematical model, such as a computer simulation, designed to represent the performance of a financial asset or a portfolio, of a business, a project, or any other form of financial investment.
Theoretically speaking, a [...]

Dear Friends,
Pristine is a financial training institute founded by professionals and alumnus of Standard Chartered, Goldman Sachs, Reliance Private Equity, SBI, Accenture, IBM and CRISIL, IIM, IIT and SIBM. Pristine is organizing “Free Seminars on Financial Modeling using Excel”. For more details, download the brochure for Financial Modeling

Date: 14th Feb 2010
Timings: 4pm to 5pm
Venue: Indian [...]

Financial Modeling for takeover (SAST) followup
Last weekend we had a brilliant session on creating a model for takeover pricing. Around 100 people from across the world attended the session and discussed various aspects of financial modeling. There were some confusion regarding the timing of the webinar, but as indicated in the blog announcement regarding the [...]

Why go for Financial Certifications

Financial Modeling take over SEBI SAST: Free Webinar
No learning is complete without the application in real world. Certifications like CFA, FRM give a sound grounding in all the concepts of finance - Corporate finance, Valuation, Quantitative analysis, Investment options, Instruments like Options, Futures, Markets, Risk, etc. If it is combined with actual implementation of [...]

Job Profile of an Equity Researcher
Typical Day:
Equity research analysts start their day by attending various conference calls with firm’s traders and brokers, before the markets open. In these calls they discuss and share the investment recommendations for clients. They have to prepare the research reports and equity recommendations. To this end they spend a good [...]

Job Profile of a Management Consultant
Typical Day:
Most consultants begin around 9 in the morning and usually leave the office by 10-11pm. The day begins with checking the voicemails and replying to emails followed by brief news update. Meeting with client teams, presentations and analysis of facts and figures consumes most of the day. The day [...]

Financial Risk Management (FRM) Experts Interview

This is an interview in a series of Interviews that Pristine Careers would conduct. Pristine would meet professionals/ students / other people, who have been successful in clearing FRM and get their views on how to succeed. Pristine is hopeful that it would give the readers some insight into how [...]