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Bigbull2984

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Any chance someone here is a retired portfolio manager? I use excel(regressions) for everything when it comes to calculating beta, alpha, corralations and all the other good stuff. The reason I ask is I am almost done with my MBA in Finance and taking my CFA in Dec and was wondering how was this done in days before excel and computers doing all the thinking?

Even by hand it can take a person couple of days to do one regression by hand if use 60 month of data.
 
I think those guys had more of a "feel" for the data, than actually crunching the numbers. Everything I did in my 5 years of Equity Research was based off of Excel and DCF models. Before that the game was a bit different.
 
Yea that's a good point. What did you do after equity research?
 
I went back to school and got a master in Real Estate Finance and underwrote CMBS for a while. That didn't end well. What area of finance are you focusing on?
 
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