University of Toronto St. George Campus - Finance
Sr. Analyst, Structured Credit/Risk Management-HOOPP, Instructor-Investment Banking, CFA Instructor, University Lecturer
Vikram
Iyer, CFA
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Specialties: Structured Credit Deals, Equity Research, Strategy, Training CFA candidates and investment bankers, Advanced Derivatives, Structured Products, Structured Rates, Investment Banking, Valuations, Equity Research, Microsoft excel, Training, Risk Analysis, Bloomberg, Factset, Sophis
By being one of the 35 designated CFA Mentors selected by CFA Society Toronto for the city of Toronto, my role extends towards developing and enhancing professional relationships of mentees and guiding them in their career.
Virtual Classroom Instructor for CFA
Mentor CFA Candidates
Review changes in content and keep abreast of all relevant topics and monitor trends
Identify learning assets and conduct sessions through webinars for world wide access of students
Professor
I lecture on the subject of Security Analysis and Valuation.
I focus on students obtaining a broad knowledge on financial markets, portfolio management principles, risk-return characteristics of investment decision-making and security valuation.
The course also highlights fixed income valuations and derivatives analysis.
CFA Instructor
Train and mentor CFA candidates for all 3 levels. Specialized in providing expert knowledge for all the subjects of CFA curriculum including Fixed Income, Derivatives, Corporate Finance, Portfolio Management, Equity Analysis, Quantitative Methods, Economics, Financial Analysis etc.
Ensure candidates are well prepared for the exam by providing constant feedback of their progress and testing their concepts on a regular basis using exam oriented examples.
Lecturer
Lecturer at John Molson School of Business’ MBA program at Concordia University
Train students on major subjects in CFA Level II program. These include equity valuations, industry and company analysis, free cash flow models, enterprise value multiples, residual income valuations, private company valuations, private and public real estate securities, private equity, hedge fund and commodities analysis.
Objective of the course is to enable students to launch their careers in different divisions within finance ranging from sell side roles in investment banking, equity research to buy side roles in pension funds, private equity, hedge funds among other roles
Concordia University partners with CFA Institute through the university affiliation program
Professor
Training students on the art of exploring pricing and use of derivative securities - futures and forward contracts, swaps and options -- traded on stocks, bonds, commodities, interest rates and currencies. Lecturing on how they work, how to hedge or speculate with them and how they are priced
Sr. Analyst, Structred Credit and Risk Management
Responsible for providing research and developing valuation methodologies for HOOPP’s derivatives, fixed income and credit investment strategies
Research, build and maintain cash flow & structured credit financial models used for independent pricing and analyze various risks
Domains covered are private assets, credit derivatives, CLO’s, and mortgages, Debt Capital Markets, structured finance and Credit
Key working member of RBC Capital Markets' Mosaic. It is an RBC initiative to make the organization more inclusive. While there are several sub-categories within the division such as "Women in Capital Markets", "LGBT Commnities", I am involved in Increasing scope for visible minorities within RBC Capital Markets.
MS Finance
Finance
All 3 Levels Completed
Finance
B.Com
Commerce
Gold Standard - Volunteer Spotlight Awards
Volunteer Spotlight Award
Vikram has been a dynamic Mentorship Program Mentor since 2017. Vikram has enthusiastically worked with his Protégés to guide them in their career progression. Vikram remarked that he’s also learned a great deal form his Protégés over the years. Vikram was tagged as a Mentorship Program Speed Mentor twice and he’s also been a lead speaker for their program’s ‘Day in the Life of’ speakers series. During his presentation he spoke about structured credit and collateralized loan obligations and the challenges of investor awareness and potential risk/return trade-off. As a university lecturer and Mentor with the Society, Vikram has a passion for helping others achieve their professional goals. The Society would like to thank Vikram for all his efforts with the Mentorship Program and being such a dedicated volunteer!
https://www.cfatoronto.ca/Volunteer/volawards
By being one of the 35 designated CFA Mentors selected by CFA Society Toronto for the city of Toronto, my role extends towards developing and enhancing professional relationships of mentees and guiding them in their career.