Vigilant Global Interview Questions

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Real-Time Market Analyst Interview - Markets

Anonymous interview candidate in Montreal
Interviewed: February 2014
Date Submitted: Nov 18, 2014
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
1 on 1 Interview
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Interview
Vigilant is basically a private event-driven hedge fund who also outsources its technology to other funds, and I learned about their activities from a friend who interned there. So I applied online and got one interview about a month later. The interview was at Vigilant's office in downtown Montreal and it was with 2 people: one HR and one manager of the market team. They started off with behavioural questions (eg. walkthrough your resume, what are your strengths, tell me about this experience on your CV..) then quickly jumped into market-related questions such as: what's your view on gold, what's your view on US economic recovery in the next 20 months, which event have you been following and what trades did you think about. The interviewers were very nice and gave their own opinions about the market. I had a good feeling about it. The entire interview lasted 30 minutes and I was told that they would get back to me, which they never did even after I followed up with them. So that left me with a bad impression of this company.
Interview Questions
What's your view on Canadian gold miners?
I honestly was not prepared for this question, but I should have since the firm is in Canada and over half of the Canadian equity index (TSX) is commodities-related. So I just talked my view on the gold price, without going into details about a specific miner
What would happen to the local bond market if China lower their infrastructure spending?
I said that overall, this decrease in infrastructure spending would slower the Chinese economic growth and create a risk-on environment which would result in flight of money in the Chinese equities market to the bond market. Within the fixed income market, there would be a run on corporate bonds and rise in treasuries.
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