September is almost over and Y2s are getting acquainted with financial instruments and exchange markets, whereas Y1 rush to complete their EBP projects and are preparing for their first exam in Mathematics. Lots to do, isn’t it? Well, nobody has told that life at SSER gonna be easy, but everybody deserves some good rest. So distract a little bit from the hard studies and Browse Happy is a way for you to find out what are the versions of the major browsers around. enjoy already the 4th Newsletter of the Investment Fund.
This week the financial world was struck by an unprecedented scandal in the past few years concerning a 2.3 billion loss in the so-called rogue-traderism (trading under fraudulent schemes) of a Swiss investment bank UBS. Such cases are very rare, yet extremely massive in their scale, so we will try to elaborate on that in one of the articles.
Our second article is devoted to the Frankfurt auto show, particularly to one of its largest participants – Volkswagen. The company is currently undergoing rapid expansion, so will try to see what are the problems and prospects facing the company.
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IFund invites students to participate in an investment contest SSE Riga Finance Challenge 2017 that gives them an opportunity to apply the knowledge in Economics and Finance as well as win a cash prize from total prize pool of 1800€.