Capital Markets - a Fascinating Journey

I'm very fascinated by the Capital Markets and their workings. Incidentally, my current work is developing a wealth management solution product that shall be implemented for major banks in US. The current task is to develop the Portfolio Performance pages. Business knowledge and understanding of the performance measurement techniques were impediments to roll out the task on time. A business analyst from the client was sent to provide inputs on the domain

With client's presence in the office and questions getting answered instantaniously, we are in a pretty good shape now. This was more of a learning exercise than just coding. Reading the book "Pratical Portfolio Performance Measurement & Attribution" helped a lot in getting upto speed. More specifically, it helped me to get a clear understanding of the Dietz's formula.

I'm delighted on hearing that I was nominated for a week long training on Financial Concepts and Capital Markets, starting next week. More inputs on the Finance Domain. But, I'm still not an investor ;-)

My New Laptop

I bought a new laptop on the weekend. It is Compaq Presario V4000/4103AP make with ubiquitous disk space and RAM. The most impressive features are the wide screen and the TFT display, playing Age of Empires/Kings on the laptop is a delight. Now, I can do some serious programming on the weekend and play my favorite games - The Commandos and Age of Empires. Has been trying from a long time to learn Ruby, but that remained elusive due to the tight work schedules, client visits. I hope with the laptop, I'll be an Rubyist soon. :-D