Bulls & Bears
The Finance and Risk Engineering Club, “Bulls & Bears”, was founded to spark community engagement and create a tighter knit cohort within NYU’s FRE program. The club strives to supplement the theoretical FRE Coursework with the soft-skills and financial intuition necessary to thrive in the cut-throat world of Finance. In this process, the club will enable students to enhance their personal and professional networks.
The Fall 2020 leadership of the club consists of President Steven Xu, MD Trading Sachin Labhishetty, Md Data Science Henry Huang, MD Quant Research Ajay Dugar, and MD Corporate Finance Kim Zhang.
The club was founded in Fall 2018 by Alex Marchi, Claudio González, Abhirit “Abhi” Kanti, and Clio Wei.
Bulls & Bears has hosted a plethora of Industry Speakers:
| Guest Speaker | Credential | Topic |
| Dr. Louis Scott | Officer, Federal Reserve Bank | GPUs in Finance |
| Dr. Vasily Strela (MIT) | Global Head of Quant Strategies, RBC | Life of a Quant |
| Chris Hla-Gyaw | Finance Leader, Infineum | Corporate Finance Case Studies |
| Britni Ihle (MIT) | Credit Derivatives Trader, Credit Suisse | How Traders use the Bloomberg Terminal demo |
| Linda Lin
Dr. Mike Lipkin |
IB Director, Citibank
Senior Trader/Managing Member |
Career Success in the USA
Coffee Chat & Options Pinning |
In these trying times, B&B hosts a number of weekly events in order to provide students with virtual spaces to interact. Such events have included student-led discussions on FRE Department “Brooklyn Quant Experience” Seminars.
B&B adds to members’ technical and soft skillets by doing collaborative finance projects. B&B emulates the structure and operations of an Investment Bank by spinning off into 4 separate divisions: Data Science, Corporate Finance, Trading, and Quant Research. To see a list of our past projects, click here.
Structure
Data Science:
This department performs data analysis/machine learning projects.
Trading:
The Trading department manages a simulated portfolio across multiple asset classes
in response to real-time news events. Analysts and Associates focus on specific industries and
VPs are responsible for driving Trading strategies/managing Risk.
Corporate Finance:
Members in the Corporate Finance department expose themselves to
financial market news and use their Analysis skills to drive Research / Case Study projects.
They combine their macro-economic and political policy knowledge with technical insight from
Data Science and Quant Research to facilitate informed trading decisions.
Quant Research:
Primarily focusing on academic and computational problems, the Quant
Research department conducts new or implements existing research, either in the form of
academic publications/whitepapers or the development of software. Members can expect
projects to fall into two categories: 1) independent, which will involve financial applications of
concepts borrowed from other science and engineering disciplines; and 2) supplemental to the
projects of the Trading and Corporate Finance divisions. The team participates in inhouse
discussions on implementing mathematical models for trading and portfolio use and expects to
hold talks on active areas of quantitative research for other Bulls and Bears members and the
FRE community at large.
General Members:
In addition to “titled” members with formalized commitments to the club, Bulls and Bears prizes the engagement of the general FRE student body. FRE students are free to attend meetings listed on the calendar and contribute per their convenience.
Leadership
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| Steven K. Xu | Sachin Labhishetty | Shengyu “Henry” Huang |
Not pictured: Kim Zhang, Ajay Dugar
Contact Us
Email: nyu.fre.club@nyu.edu
For Industrial Professionals who are interested in cooperation:
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