Hi,
I am currently preparing for a second round phone interview with an associate in the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing group.
Some background,
I am studying economics & accounting. I also have had two internships in the real estate industry so I have a decent understanding of the acquisitions process and am very familiar with the excel calculations and models relating to real estate.
I was hoping someone would shed some light on some of the differences between first and second round phone interviews for a group like this. I spoke with an analyst and now will be speaking with an associate.
Will there be similar questions (resume, fit type, basic technical questions) or should I expect something completely different or more intense? I was thinking it may be similar and another member of the team would just like to get a feel for me as well.
Also,
Any advice on the final round in person interviews would be appreciated as well. Thanks in advance.
I don't know what office you are talking about, I interviewed with an associate the other day (full-time but still relevant I hope) and it was more technical questions. You have to repeat your story again obvi but the focus, at least for me (london office) was technical and showing that you know your shit.
Zewa. Very interested in the interview u had with MSREI and it will be great if you can get some debrief on the type of questions asked and some tips maybe.
Willywonka1493. Which location are you referring to? I think the last round will be an Assessment centre style with casestudies isnt it?
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing Summer Analyst (Originally Posted: 11/19/2015)
Just had a first round on-campus interview for MS's REI group. The interview was much more technical than anticipated - thankfully I had studied real estate financials and was well prepared. Curious to see if anyone else out there has gone through the same interview/similar experience and how it went. I know that REI is part of the Investment Management division, but does anyone have additional input on this specific group (SF office)? Would be interested to hear your thoughts.
Hi,
I too recently went through the first round interviews and am preparing for the second round.
I was wondering if you had already done your second round?
Hey, could you tell me more about the second round interview? I just had my first round! Thank you
You just had your first round? I had mine in August and haven't heard back so I assumed i'm out.. unless they're taking 3 months just to do first rounds....
Morgan Stanley Real Estate FOF Interview (Originally Posted: 01/19/2011)
I got an interview with Morgan Stanley Real Estate FOF?
Anyone has advice for it? I am pretty new to FOF, what kind of questions should I expect? Or where I can learn more about FOF? Any website recommended?
Thanks! Much appreciate!
What's the scope of responsibilty for this job? Do you mean 'Fund-of-funds'? Please be more specific.
It's a analyst position, for real estate fund of funds.
supporting investment and business reporting.
what does real estate fund of funds do? what skills and qualifications they need?
real estate FOF manages capital for pensions, high net worth individuals, etc.... they invest this capital into real estate PE and/or real estate hedge funds. Usually what you're going to be doing is looking at new fund offerings and deciding whether or not to make an investment. Basically, you're going to be evaluating the firm's team (all their resumes and qualifications), track record (past investment performance), strategy (focused, diversified, opportunistic, core, value add, etc) and target sector/market (geographic region, residential vs. retail vs. office, etc.)... You'll be doing a lot of DD work in background checking all the people at the senior positions in the firms you want to invest with (like calling references, etc) and you'll also be evaluating their financial models / strategies to judge feasability, risk, upside potential... etc.
Basically you'll be deciding which real estate PE funds you want to invest on based on whatever strategy (or lack there of) your FOF is targeting.
some of the FOF analysts/associates I've spoken with (and that's a ton, because I work for REPE and have the responsibility to hang out with the younger people who come over from america/europe to look into our fund) say that they like the job... they get to travel a lot (we're in china, for example) and the hours aren't bad but the pay is still solid. Others however, say that they really don't working at FOF. The work is not challenging, the pay isn't is as good as banking/PE and 90% of the work they do is on reporting / analytics stuff which is basically like back/middle offices. I have a feeling at a big fund like MS would manage they're not gonna be sending analysts to china to DD teams... they're going to have directors and MDs doign that stuff and you may be compiling reports and doublechecking references all day. The hours should be okay though... there's just not that much work for FOFs to do.
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