UCLA Finance Bureaucracy
This program at UCLA provides students mentorship across four verticals.
What is Sharpe?
The Big Short is about investors who bet against this market (that infamously crashed in 2008).
What is housing?
What is the yen?
These three investment banks are the largest and most extensive in deal flow.
What are JPM, GS, and MS?
A stock trading at $100 with $5 EPS has a P/E of 20. If earnings rise to $10 but price stays the same, the new P/E is this.
What is 10?
These four UCLA clubs are often crowned the "big four."
What are BAM, BIT, BHF, and BVI?
The “Succession” family empire is loosely based on this real media company.
What is Fox (or News Corp)?
This island nation is known as a global financial hub and has the Merlion statue.
What is Singapore?
This independent advisory firm merged with Lazard Frères to dominate post-WWII M&A.
What is Lazard?
This electric car company’s stock split 5-for-1 in 2020.
What is Tesla?
This UCLA finance club is chapter-based and features an "8-week Leadership Development Program."
What is Scholars of Finance?
This Netflix show follows a chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin.
What is Breaking Bad?
This Caribbean, tax-free territory is famous for offshore hedge funds.
What is the Cayman Islands?
Private equity company KKR stands for what?
What is Kohlberg Kravis Roberts?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average tracks this many large U.S. companies.
What is 30?
DSP and AKPsi are UCLA's two most popular business fraternities, however, the school has more than just two. Name a different business-centered fraternity.
What is SEP or PSE?
Leonardo DiCaprio played this infamous stockbroker in The Wolf of Wall Street.
Who is Jordan Belfort?
According to the Global Financial Centres Index, the most influential cities, financially, are as follows in order from most influential to least: X, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, SF, Chicago, LA, Y, Shenzhen, and Seoul. X and Y are?
What are NYC and Shanghai?
Known for its elite restructuring practice and “RX kings” reputation.
What is Houlihan Lokey?
Many believe that FAANG is an outdated acronym for America's top tech stocks and companies. A new popular acronym, MANGO, has arisen in some forums, and stands for these 5 companies.
What are Meta, Apple, Nvidia, Google, and OpenAI?
UCLA's investment banking committee runs the IB Workshop. Name three people directing or managing the workshop in this recruitment cycle.
Who are Dea Arora, Damon Choy, Trisha Sreedhar, Kavin Balamurali, Jerrick Wu, Nikhil Mummalaneni, Cyrus Gouda, and Zachary Watkins?
What is Aerotyne?
The two largest stock exchanges by monthly trade volume are the NYSE and NASDAQ. List 2 other stock exchanges in the top 5 by trade volume.
What are Shanghai Stock Exchange, Japan Exchange Group, and Hong Kong Stock Exchange?
Dubbed by many in the finance community as a sweatshop, this specific office (provide FIRM and LOCATION) is known for grueling hours.
What is Moelis LA?
The 2020–21 boom in companies going public through SPACs stands for this.
What is a Special Purpose Acquisition Company?