Columbia Alpha Partners

This coming Friday, Columbia Alpha Partners is partnering with Amplify Trading to bring you the opportunity to go through the same simulation used to train new graduate hires at top banks! Experience what it's like to be both a sales-trader at an investment bank and a portfolio manager at an asset management firm as you trade against your peers. Participants will have access to pre-learning content, as well as a live crash course in market-making, sales trading, and portf...olio management. Top performers may be fast-tracked to final round interviews with partner firms like Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. See FB event for more info & sign-up process: https://fb.me/e/6aJuUIpO0

Join us tonight for a conversation with Erik Moss, CFA, CAIA, Managing Director & Senior Fixed Income Strategists at BlackRock where he oversees a $150B portfolio of assets! He will provide an overview of what a career in fixed income looks like, the strengths of BlackRock’s business, and the current state of the markets.

Join us tomorrow evening for a discussion with real estate mogul Abigail Black Elbaum! As Co-Founder & Principal of Ogden CAP Properties, she oversees a vast portfolio of trophy assets across NYC & DC. Ms. Elbaum will offer her insights on running a prominent investment firm and the current state of the commercial real estate markets, as well as advice on succeeding in the industry.

How does a practicing physician end up as a Partner at a leading investment bank? Join us on Wednesday to learn more about Dr. Scullion’s unconventional path into finance, dive into current trends in the industry, and find out how to best position yourself for success.

How does a real estate project go from concept to reality? Find out on Tuesday Oct 6th.

Interested in the markets? Come learn about the space and how to break in from a panel of analysts & associates at BlackRock, Citadel, Citi, and Goldman Sachs. When: 09/16/20 at 7:00pm EDT

Mark your calendars and join Columbia Alpha Partners and guest David Toledano, Managing Director at Mizuho in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group. He will be speaking broadly about the industry landscape, what the various potential career paths look like, and his personal experiences across a number of roles on both the sell-side and buy-side. Please come prepared with questions for Mr. Toledano! When: 09/15/20 at 7:00pm EDT... Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exploring-the-real-estate-land

Welcome back to the fall semester! We're starting the school year off with our Info Session open to first-year students via Zoom. When: Friday, 09/11/20 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time... Please register via the Eventbrite link. Zoom link will be sent out ahead of the start time! Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/columbia-alpha-partners-info-s Visit our website to familiarize yourself with our student group in the meantime: https://columbia-alpha-partners.com -- -- Columbia Alpha Partners is a diversified undergraduate student group at Columbia University covering the spectrum of professional opportunities across the financial services, investment management, and real estate industries. The Group is comprised of three primary divisions: - Columbia Investment Banking Division (formerly CIBD) - Columbia Global Markets Division (formerly CUFE) - Columbia Real Estate Group (formerly CREG) Across these divisions, Columbia Alpha Partners regularly hosts discussions with notable industry speakers, holds educational workshops to enhance the technical knowledge of members, and partners with leading firms on recruiting efforts and office/site visits.

Columbia College Young Alumni (CCYA) has asked us to share this upcoming event on the Financial Services Recruiting Landscape. Financial services recruiters from Goldman Sachs and leading search firm CPI will discuss the evolving recruiting landscape and processes for investment banking and buy-side roles, including private equity and hedge funds, given the context of the pandemic. Tune in if interested in pursuing a career in finance!

We are excited to kick off applications for Columbia Alpha Partners, our newly consolidated club on campus born through the merger of the Columbia Investment Banking Division (CIBD), Columbia University Financial Engineering (CUFE), and the Columbia Real Estate Group (CREG)! We are currently looking for rising sophomores and rising juniors to join the Executive Board at the Director level across all divisions: investment banking, global markets, real estate. As a board member..., you will be responsible for building out our educational and professional programming across our club initiatives. Technical skills are a plus but motivated students with a strong passion to learn about the industry are what we are looking for in particular! Visit our website to apply: https://columbia-alpha-partners.com PRIORITY DEADLINE: Tuesday 21st July, 11:59pm ET We look forward to receiving your applications!

A group of Columbia classmates have developed an online nonprofit corporation called flypaper tutors Inc. to facilitate free, on-demand, one-on-one tutoring to underserved middle schoolers. Families can book sessions for their students, at least 12 hours before the session they book! Help us reach the families who could highly benefit from flypaper tutors. We’re thinking about students whose school systems cannot adequately accommodate their educational needs during this time, the children of front-line and health-care workers, the kids of overwhelmed by the burdens that this pandemic has placed on their families Visit our website here: https://flypapertutors.org/