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Got your hint...willing to pack my bags soon :-)

Its good to read your diaries Y. Great going!!

[QUOTE=oasis138;476394] The goal of the trip was recruitment at Shibpur (WB Engg and Sciences college). As the placement folks told as this was the 2nd oldest university of India established in 1850's. The student quality was quite good. [QUOTE] Just for your information there are two grounds at ...

I think I can relate to your feelings. This morning going through "Google News" I made a mistake of clicking on a news headline of something like "Girl molestation in Guahati video goes viral" and since then I am having a really difficult time. I was (and I think I still am) completely determined ...

[QUOTE=Desi;393811][QUOTE]Basically, you did not say much different than .[/QUOTE] From your post I felt you are saying inflation is THE biggest factor for determining USD/INR exchange rate and then there are other factors. I wanted to say govt. intervention is the biggest factor and then there are ...

[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I think interest rate parity is not fully applicable here. First let me crunch some numbers. Let’s say nominal interest rate for 1 year deposit (which is real IR + inflation) in INR is 8% and that of USD is 1%. Current exchange rate is 44.5 INR/USD. Therefore by IRP the ...

I do some SAS programming. I work in Insurance though (as actuary - not qualified yet).

Th [FONT=Tahoma]Thanks for the replies guys. Actuaries are indeed very weird and it looks like they are rare too. [/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]So far I have worked mainly in the investment side of life companies and some financial reporting stuff. I am aware that actuarial job market ...

Hi, Are there any actuaries in this board? I am close to my ASA ( getting it within next two months) and have 3+ years of experience in investment acturial roles (ALM, stochastic asset cash flow projection etc, now doing variable annuity hedging). Prior to that I had 2 years of software development ...