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Mutual Fund Mastery

Funds are easy to buy and hard to compare. You learn how a NAV is struck, what expense ratio and turnover really say, and why two correct return numbers disagree.

Mutual Fund Mastery careers are found across firms like

BlackRock
Vanguard
Fidelity
Franklin Templeton
HDFC AMC

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Funds, AMCs & Collective Investments

Practise the questions firms actually asked

100 real Mutual Fund Mastery interview questions from 19 firms, each with a model answer and the mistakes to avoid.

Asked at Vanguard, BlackRock and 17 more firms

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Crack the puzzles interviewers love

100 Mutual Fund Mastery brainteasers, from probability to mental maths. Try each one first, then read the worked solution.

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13 topics
30 hard ones

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Work the cases like a real round

100 Mutual Fund Mastery case studies: a business, its numbers and a task. Work it on paper, then open the solution one step at a time.

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32 hard ones

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Case 001Core

Pitch Chitravarna Paints: revenue of Rs 4,200 crore growing 14%, an 18% EBITDA margin, 32% return on capital, net cash, and a share price at 48 times earnings. Long or pass, and what has to be true for 48 times to work?

1Why is a great business not automatically a good investment?
2What growth does 48 times already assume?
3Could the business actually deliver that?

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Funds, AMCs & Collective Investments

Practise the questions firms actually asked

Crack the puzzles interviewers love

Work the cases like a real round

Analysing an Issuer's Credit

Duration and What It Does Not Tell You

Bond Pricing and Yield Mechanics

Building a Client Risk Profile

Common Size and Trend Analysis

Reading a Cash Flow Statement

Ratio Analysis That Says Something

Building a Working Capital Schedule

Comparing Funds Without Being Fooled

How a NAV Is Struck and Which Day You Get

Reading a Fund Factsheet Properly

Rebalancing: When, Why and What It Costs

Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation

Writing an Investment Thesis

Reading an Annual Report Fast

Reading a Sector Before a Company

Spotting Quality of Earnings Red Flags

Short Selling Mechanics

Long Short Mechanics

Fund Waterfalls and Carry

The LBO in Structure

Tax Aware Portfolio Decisions

Goal Based Planning Arithmetic

Precedent Transactions and Why They Differ

Reading a Term Sheet Structurally

Building a Comparable Companies Table

Credit Exposure and How It Is Reduced

Value at Risk and What It Hides

Sizing a Market

Reading a Term Sheet as a Founder

How a Venture Round Actually Works

Backtesting a Strategy

Hypothesis Testing

Cleaning Financial Data

Regression for Finance

Retrieval and Grounding for Finance

Document Extraction in Finance

Hedging a Real Exposure

The Greeks, Practically

Futures, the Basis and What Moves It

Reading an Option Payoff

Measuring Risk in a Portfolio

Building a Discounted Cash Flow

Building a Revenue Forecast From Drivers

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