Time is running fast! We are already halfway through the spring term of the MSc Finance programme at Imperial College Business School (ICBS) and I haven’t even reported on last term’s lectures yet. But as promised in October, here are my thoughts on the autumn term’s four core courses. For me personally, Corporate Finance was the [...] Continue reading →

At least once a week I go through the traffic stats of this blog and my other websites. One statistic included in the reports is how people arrive at my sites. Expectedly, a big portion of the traffic is referred to me by search engines. So, naturally, I open the next report telling me what [...] Continue reading →

Since I wrote my first post on my MSc studies some months ago I received a few emails from prospective students applying to universities. After all, it’s that time of the year again. Two questions that came up most often are: 1) What GMAT score should I get in order to be accepted into the MBA/MSc [...] Continue reading →

As one might have been able to tell from the long-lasting silence on this blog, I have been very busy with my studies lately. The workload increased significantly compared to the introductory September courses. Usually we have between two and three assessed courseworks to complete in any given week, all the while trying to keep [...] Continue reading →

The September term of the MSc Finance 2012-2013 programme at Imperial College came to a close last week with group coursework and individual tests in the introductory courses. I will therefore take the time to look back at the first month of studies and briefly summarise my impression of the business school so far. If [...] Continue reading →

This is my first domain-related post since October 2009 and no, I’m not going to regularly blog about domain names again in future. However, this particular issue is quite interesting in that it illustrates how domain investors are taking on a technological risk when buying domain names. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers [...] Continue reading →

On Thursday, 6th September, ECB president Mario Draghi finally gave the financial markets what they had long been greedy for: The European Central Bank announced its so-called Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) programme, which shall provide it with the necessary and theoretically unlimited firepower to ease the euro crisis. As had been expected, the adoption of [...] Continue reading →