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Does CFA Help You Get Into Investment Banking?

Assumed CFA could get you into investment banking? Find out what recruiters value more and where CFA fits into the hiring process

SSEI Team

·6 min read·21 Aug

Market Insights

How Did Lehman Brothers Collapse in 2008?

SSEI Team·5 min·18 Aug

Market Insights

The Recession That Never Came - And the AI Money Behind It

AI capex is fueling GDP growth while accounting timelines flatter earnings. Here's the mechanism, the numbers behind it, and the risk if the spending cycle reverses.

Sanjay Saraf·5 min·6 Aug

Market Insights

Decoding the AI Stack - Compute, Models and who captures the Value

AI infrastructure vs AI applications: as open-weight models rise, find out which layer of the AI stack holds durable pricing power

Sanjay Saraf·5 min·2 Aug

Market Insights

The AI Boom: Revolution or Capital Destruction?

Sanjay Saraf·6 min·28 Jul

Career Guidance

You Would Never Invest Money the Way You Invest Your Career

Clearing CFA, FRM or CA makes you qualified, not scarce. Vidyut Kauntia, CEO of SSEI, on the five career assets that decide who rises in finance and who stalls.

Vidyut Kauntia ·5 min·25 Jul

Career Guidance

Why CFA and CA Qualified Professionals Still Struggle With Practical Finance Work

Clearing the CFA or CA doesn’t guarantee you can build a model or research a sector. Here’s why that gap exists, and what it costs candidates

SSEI Team·5 min·9 Jul

Foreign Exchange Risk in CA Final AFM: The Core Concepts Explained

Foreign exchange risk is a recurring theme in CA Final AFM. This article explains the core concepts candidates need to understand, beyond formula memorization.

SSEI Team·4 min·9 Jul

Financial Markets

The Ownership Economy: Why Only 1 in 15 Indians Actually Own the Growth They’re Building

Only 1 in 15 Indians hold a demat account. Here’s how SIPs, ESOPs, and entrepreneurship can turn growth into real inclusion

SSEI Team·4 min·8 Jul

Market Insights

Insider Trading v/s Short-Selling: What the Hindenburg-Adani Case Really Teaches Us

Insider trading meaning, short selling explained simply, and the market ethics questions raised by the Hindenburg-Adani case

SSEI Team·4 min·8 Jul

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