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Career track · Portfolio Management

Portfolio Management

Portfolio management is deciding where every rupee sits and defending it. You cover strategic allocation, the rules for leaving it, and what rebalancing actually costs.

Portfolio Management careers are found across firms like
  • BlackRockBlackRock
  • VanguardVanguard
  • FidelityFidelity
  • PIMCOPIMCO
  • State StreetState Street

Company names are shown as industry examples only; no partnership or affiliation is implied.

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  • Portfolio Construction & Investment Management

    • Portfolio Management Foundations
    • Mandate and Investment Policy
    • Risk, Return and Diversification
    • Asset Allocation and Construction
    • Security Selection and Implementation
    • Risk Monitoring and Performance Evaluation
    • Portfolio Vehicles and India Governance
    • Professional Practice and Overlays

Practise the questions firms actually asked

100 real Portfolio Management interview questions from 24 firms, each with a model answer and the mistakes to avoid.

BLWMACAsked at BlackRock, Vanguard and 22 more firms
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Portfolio theory

What does modern portfolio theory actually say, and what does it get wrong?

Asked at Northern Trust
Asset allocation

What would your allocation be in today's market?

Asked at Amundi
Performance measurement

How would you assess a fund's performance?

Asked at Neuberger Berman

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Compounding and fee dragCore

A fund compounds at 15% a year for ten years. What share of the total gain over the decade arrives in the last three years?

A30%, three years out of tenBAbout 38%CAbout 45%DAbout 70%
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Work the cases like a real round

100 Portfolio Management 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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Case 002Core

A bond fund holds Rs 800 crore of government bonds at a modified duration of 6.5 and wants 4.0. One bond futures contract has a DV01 of Rs 1,400. How many contracts does it sell?

  1. 1Why do you size a duration hedge in DV01 and not in rupees of notional?
  2. 2How do the numbers work?
  3. 3What happens if yields rise 50 basis points?
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