ALM First Financial Advisors Interview Questions (2024) - 1 Entries

ALM First Financial Advisors Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (53%)

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Interview Difficulty (13%)

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The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few interview insights). Simply put, as a company gets more insights, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire data set.

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Interviews at ALM First Financial Advisors

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Year

Job Title

Group/Division

Location

Experience

Difficulty

1st Year Analyst

Year 2010

Job Title 1st Year Analyst

Group/Division Advisory

Location Dallas

Experience

Very Positive

Difficulty

Easy

Interview Questions & Answers - ALM First Financial Advisors Examples

Analyst Interview - Advisory

Anonymous employee in Dallas

Interviewed: August 2010

Date Submitted: Apr 27, 2013

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Employee Referral

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

Phone Interview

Group Interview

Background Check

Interview

I recieved my interview through a weak contact at the firm. The first round is a phone interview screen. The purpose of this screen is to ensure that you are not completely stupid. It's a simple walk through the resume type ordeal. The interviewer will ask some brief questions on your knowledge of the fixed income and current events. The interviewer will then go on about the role in question. The second round is a series of one on on or two on two interviews with analysts and senior analysts at the firm. Again they will ask you the walk me through the resume ordeal. They may ask you some basic bond math questions and questions on current events and how they may relate to our industry. They will go on about the day to day work of an analyst. This is your time to ask them questions about what it's like to work at the firm. Make sure to appear smart and likable. If you can make it past the analysts, you will be called in to talk with the portfolio managers. Again walk through your resume. The PMs may ask you some bond math and bond terminology questions. They may ask you question regarding current events. It's ok to say you don't know how to calc something because if say you know how to do it they will make you do some problems.

Interview Questions

explain/calculate duration, convexity, present value, what happens to price when the 10 year falls what is securitization...

Current event questions like what is QE, where is the 10 year at, how do events in europe influence the pricing of MBS...what effect will a certain proposed regulation have on the banking industry...

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