Is University of Amsterdam a semi-target, or is Prometheus Capital (investment club) the pipeline?
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Amsterdam in general is honestly a grind to recruit out of if you don't have something going for you. The banks are there but they're not exactly rolling out the red carpet for randoms from the university
Prometheus Capital from what I've seen seems to be one of those things that just opens doors. If it’s a good investment club then join it yeah - it’s always better
I don't know all the details of how it works but if the people coming out of it seem to land well and that's usually a good sign
Probably worth trying to get in if you can swing it, worst case you've got a network in the city which is never a bad thing
Good luck out there
thank you I hope I can prepare well for it, thank you so much for the advice 🙏🙏🙏
If they are sending people into banks, thats where you want to be, put all the cards on your side
Semi targets / non targets sometimes have these clubs that are the only portal into the industry, I recommend you join it
Okay it seems like something worth joining, how can I best prep for something like this do you think?
I would say try prepping with any financial modeling courses / learn about the industry over the summer and see if you can join as an analyst. they seem to be doing ER mostly, so grind the basics (Business / Financials / valuation) and hopefully they have a program to help out w the learning.
Then just get your techs down while there, and start accessing that alumni pipeline / firm networks you mentioned and you should be good to intern. Its tough and coming from a semi target / non target is an uphill battle
Yooo I'm interning in Amsterdam right now at ING in Fixed Income, these guys are great haha, a few of the interns here are from that club
all of the dialed in people in NL know these guys ball, I'm from RSM but they're the only way UvA could be target ngl
so rare to see amsterdam mentioned on here
Hi thank you so much! I know RSM is a better target but my thought process was to be next to all the businesses in Zuid in Amsterdam would be very valuable. Do you have any tips overall you could share??
yea for sure
whats most important is networking, typically they only take Msc students in Finance etc.. but if you are really good and are doing well within a society like Prometheus Capital then I guess you can break into it well.
Also really prep technicals, the UvA and RSM dont really prepare you so you have to do sum yourself like take the CFA I for example, or just crush 400 IB question guides, even courses here on WSO can be good
Least obvious Prometheus Capital ‘analyst’ selling their own shit investment club
For students reading this, just go to RSM and join B&R Beurs. No need to attend a lesser uni such as UvA and join some investment club that blatantly writes research reports with AI lol
Disclaimer: went to RSM and now doing PE
What the hell is Prometheus capital lol, first time I heard of it. Don’t think most Dutch people know it in London IB as the majority is from RSM/EUR.
from my understanding of online content and website, its just the investment society at the University and they have this "placements" page that seems good that the UvA doesnt even have. So I was wondering if anyone here knew anything
it is new tho lol
Mate these guys did another post glazing their own investment club. It's just some random society at uni. All I'm saying is you don't see people from actually good finance clubs doing this...
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