Do you hold any investments yourself
Question
Do you own any shares or other investments personally?
Short answer
Answer honestly and use it to show interest in markets. If you invest, explain briefly what and why, how you think about risk, and what you have learned; if you do not, describe how you follow markets in other ways. The interviewer is gauging curiosity about markets, not portfolio size, so avoid boasting about speculative wins.
Adapted from Joshi, Denson & Downes, Quant Job Interview Questions and Answers, Q9.12, p.301; question and answer rewritten by SelfMadeQuant.com.
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