NEU东北大学 MSF 项目介绍【陆续补充中】

ptlove4ever

大家好，我是ptlove4ever。真的好久不来CD啦，自从上了NEU， 就是各种忙忙忙，也没时间上论坛了。真是愧对从前帮助过我的伙伴们！想想，还是要开个贴，出点力！
最近，因为一门课的教授专门负责NEU在上海的录取面试，所以要我帮忙回答大家的问题。我想，就索性把这些邮件中的内容同步到CD与大家共享吧！欢迎大家来到东北大学！至少在我心里，我很喜欢这个学校，也很喜欢这个项目，当然啦，波士顿也是我的心头好！祝贺所有被东北录取的孩纸们，来吧来吧，大波村欢迎您！希望收到NEU offer的同学有任何疑问都可以到这个贴里留言，我会一一解答的！
那么今天先说这两个问题吧：

项目难吗？是否需要准备？
1. Is the learning schedule very intense in NEU? Do I have to review my bachelor learning such as Micro Economics and Money & Banking?

I think it is quite intense, I mean, difficult and a lot of work if you want to get an A. But since I am not a Finance major during my undergraduate, things can be even harder. If you major in Finance before, I highly recommend you to review previous courses and take this advantage. Our first three required courses are Corporate Finance, Statistics and Investment. So you do not really need to review courses of Economics, but you may need to review the knowledge about Time Value of Money, CAPM, DCF, OPM, Statistics, Accounting, Portfolio Management, etc. Actually, if you are preparing for or have passed the CFA exam, just review those CFA materials, which cover almost all the stuffs we learnt these two semesters.

As for your specific schedule, I am not sure about what will you have in Academic Year 2014. Here is what I had from last year. We had three choices, 8-month, 12-month and 16-month tracks, which means that you could choose to finish your MSF program in different length of time. I chose the longest one, therefore, my schedule was not very intense. I had only 3 courses in the first semester, 3 required ones. And then in this semester, I had 5 courses, 1 is a required one, the others are electives. Those required courses all worth 3 credits per course. So you need  to at least take 9 credits a semester.

NEU has quite intensive arrangement for each course and that can vary based on your professor's preference. Averagely, one course will take at least 10 hours a week for preparation, reviewing and doing homework. Our school wants us to treat the program as a job. So just like a full-time job, you need to work at least 8 hours per day for 5 days a week. In order to push students commit that much time into their study, professors will assign so many readings from textbooks, recommended readings, WSJ newspapers, etc. and some of them may have assignments due every week. But it is a lot of fun and very fruitful if you spend enough time and effort into it and I feel like learning so much ever since I come here.

360 Fund是个啥？谁谁都能参加吗？
2. Could you pls give me some detailed information about 360 Huntington Fund? Can all students participate in that activity?

About the Fund, sure, because I am currently an analyst of it.
(1) Can everyone take it?
Yes, all students can participate in the fund in two ways, as a registered student for the Fund course or just audit it. The class is held every two weeks. I would recommend you to attend the course by auditing for the first semester because registering for it requires you to take some pre-courses, while as a new coming student, you surely never have those courses before.
(2) How does the Fund work?
It is a real fund managed by our students in Business School and it is managing real money donated by alumnus and faculty. The fund performed pretty well last year, but in 2014, you know, as the overall market is quite volatile, the alpha is changeable as well. We have classes every two weeks, during which some students give presentations and recommend new stocks from various sectors. After each presentation, the sector managers will vote for whether or not are we going to buy that stock. When finishing all the presentations, the chief manger will talk about the performance of our current holdings and talk about our next steps for those who have already reached target prices. But of course, sector managers also need to have many more meetings in order to make timely reaction to fluctuation from the market or an individual stock. The fund faces with the problem of lacking personnel all the time because there are students graduate from school every year, so if you do a good job, they would be glad to have you as a member of sector manager and this will be a really proud experience you can write about in your resume.
(3)  What is your job?
As a member of the Fund, you will need to monitor at least one stock everyday and write an update cover summary of it every two week before the class (meeting). In the summary, you need to talk about the change in price, HPR, estimation, fundamentals and sector trends, and give your recommendation: hold or sell. It is not difficult but require a lot of time. Once you take the job, you have to be responsible and careful because this is real money.

因为邮件都是英文回复的，我就直接粘过来了。我这点儿文学水平，想必大家也都看得懂，我就不翻译啦！欢迎大家题目问哦~啊，不说啦，复活节去啦~

CCplus

Mark一下！               

cinderellahjy

请问NEU的MSF是要WE的吗？

夏末歌

昨天才收到了东北大学offer，然后北京那边有人发邮件说要汇1000多刀到香港汇丰银行，offer也是中国人发的，心里有点犯嘀咕，这是真的么？不会是遇到诈骗吧，求解答，大家是这种情况么？谢谢了！

Patty爱学术

ptlove4ever 发表于 2014-5-23 19:20
亲，关于你的Phd问题，我帮你问了我们的advisor，她回复了，大意就是需要成绩好，早准备。金融的phd很难 ...

谢谢学姐~好感动~我的邮箱是  344756356 @ qq.com,学姐要是方便能跟我加个Q么，微信也可以，也是这个号~

missga

学姐，有没有关于回国就业的信息呢，东北回国的认可度怎么样呢？

ptlove4ever

zhugewenzuo 发表于 2014-5-7 16:50
楼主你好，2014项目都改成一年的之后是不是项目结束前就不会有机会找实习了，因为暑期也要上课。那毕业后岂 ...

不会不会，1年的项目就是夏天8月份毕业，然后你就可以开始实习了。都是在上课期间就开始投简历找实习。学校有Career center会定期组织各种招聘会，到时候你就可以通过学校单独的链接投递简历，有公司愿意面试你，然后通过考核你就可以得到实习机会一般都是提前3个月就开始找实习。找到了就可以申请OPT，然后毕业之后就直接过去实习了。

ptlove4ever

sunnyjack516 发表于 2014-5-6 09:52
G710,无工作经验。。现在很纠结要不要去东北啊！因为想去东北就是因为有带薪实习的研究生项目，但现在看 ...

恩，东北的项目在实习方面真的是没有优势。这个我也很纠结呢。

ptlove4ever

Patty爱学术 发表于 2014-5-17 00:05
亲爱的楼主，刚刚收到录取的弱弱飘过。
我看大家都在关心实习，我想知道，我去读这个项目然后之后再申PhD的 ...

亲，关于你的Phd问题，我帮你问了我们的advisor，她回复了，大意就是需要成绩好，早准备。金融的phd很难申请，但也不是没有可能。还给了我一堆资料，如果你留下邮箱，我可以给你转发啊

ptlove4ever

floristang 发表于 2014-5-9 11:44
学姐，我想问下咱学校老师有没有cfa内推的名额？

同学，关于你CFA的问题，额，我不知道什么叫做CFA内推啊？不是都需要通过考试了就自动获得资格吗？