IIM Interview Questions

Is it irrelevant as volatility may change quickly?

So you are a CA. You have also done B.Com. Tell us which was your favourite subject.

So what did you study in Finance?

So imagine you have to manage my portfolio. I give you money. You have to invest it. What is the strategy you will follow?

So when you say statistically outperform, what does that mean?

What is the difference between Statistical Data and Historical Data?

What is risk? How do you measure risk?

But every year I am getting a positive return. So where is the risk?

If you take a return of 8%. Then x minus x-bar is -1%. But if you put it in the formula it gets squared. So negative becomes positive. And over a long period of 20 years, everything will be positive. So where is the risk?

Over a long period, there will be no risk. Isn’t that correct?

Is there a better measure of risk than SD? Don’t you think SD is insufficient?

What is a monopoly? Do monopolies really need marketing?

Is advertising the same as marketing?

If I gave you an advertising budget, and asked you to advertise a product, how would you go about it?

Say it’s a product for rural masses. Which medium would you use?

How do you know if your ad is serving its purpose?

How would you actually measure the impact of an ad you’ve placed on a medium?

How would you advertise a luxury car?

So are buyers of luxury cars using System 1 or System 2?

What was the theory that Kahneman and Tversky gave?

What biases did they talk about?

What is a bias?