I am proud and grateful to announce that I have achieved a Level 5 Diploma in Applied Finance after having completed the AmplifyME Investment and Finance Simulation Bootcamp from the 8th of January 2024 - 12th of January 2024 🎉. I would like to thank the University of Strathclyde’s Accounting and Finance Department, Rachel Pooley, the team at AmplifyME : Piers Curran, Will de Lucy, Saif Ali, Anthony Cheung, Emre Ekim, Silvia Magni , their IT team (as Saif mentioned on Friday, who helped facilitate the simulation experience) and everyone who worked behind the scenes to make the simulation bootcamp a success 🙏 ! For an overview of what I learnt during the AmplifyME Investment & Finance bootcamp: 1️⃣ : ReTrader & Asset Management Simulation. - This helped me understand how macroeconomic themes influenced the global market and its volatility and gave me the experience of managing a $20 million portfolio of investments. It's safe to say that I've never managed so much money but that’s not to say I wasn’t *invested* in this simulation (a pun which hopefully made those reading this laugh, otherwise it would make me a laughing*stock* (pun) 😆.) 2️⃣ : Finance Accelerator & Sales and Trading Simulation. - This simulation helped me gauge how to communicate effectively and work on my sales skills and helped in my understanding of what was involved in facilitating trades, making markets all while managing market risk. This was a challenging simulation, but I tried my best so it was smooth *sale*ing (pun). 3️⃣ : Hedge Fund Training. - This involved applying my knowledge of technical analysis and trading strategies gleaned from AmplifyME's pre-learning material on market prices and executing trades from the points of view of a hedge fund and an investment bank. 4️⃣ : Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Simulation. - The first half of the day involved completing an Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, and Discounted Cash Flow Statement on an Excel file and making recommendations based on financial ratios whether the company should go ahead with an M&A deal and then in the second half, I learnt how to create a pitch deck based off quantitative material and research. 5️⃣ : IPO Simulation. - We had to work in teams to build a pitch deck for a fictitious company going for an Initial Public Offering. I learnt how to: analyse macro and industry trends, identify investment opportunities, use company financials to value a company, present how the company would use the proceeds, to arrive at the price range per share, how to forecast growth and assess risks. I also got the opportunity to work on soft skills such as communication and teamwork so I would say this was a very well-rounded simulation 😁! This simulation *Amplify*ed (a pun) my understanding of finance and, paired with the knowledge from my MSc in Quantitative Finance, will be invaluable in my professional life. I look forward to many more opportunities like this in the future!
Great job Miriam Laura Fernandes, congratulations!
Congratulations Miriam!! Glad to hear you enjoyed the Bootcanp experience!! 😊
Congratulations Miriam!!🥳🥳🥳
Quantitative Finance Masters || University of Strathclyde
9moI am popping into the comment section because of the word limit for the post to say that I greatly appreciated the advice Saif Ali and Emre Ekim provided on the last day of the simulation 🙏 ! I truly am grateful for the opportunity and I would recommend AmplifyME for anyone looking to enhance their career in Finance! I hope whoever reads this has a lovely rest of their day 😄 ! Happy Friday 🙌 !