EDHEC's Career Service organises a variety of events, conferences and meetings to help students enter professional life but the highlight of the year is undoubtedly the EDHEC Job Forum that takes place annually in Paris at the start of each new year. This event fits in nicely with the students' job-search calendar, when companies start thinking seriously about hiring competent students for their trainee programmes, internships and full time positions. Read next page

The EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre and the IEIF (an independent French real estate research institute), with the support of Finance Innovation, the global competitiveness institution, have announced the launch of the EDHEC IEIF Commercial Property Index (France). Read next page

A “call for reaction” was sent by EDHEC to international institutional investors and asset managers to compare investor views of amendments to the IAS39 and IFRS 7 standards not just with the conclusions of an initial EDHEC study, but also with the ambitions of these reforms prepared and adopted in great haste. Read next page

EDHEC Business School is currently in 9th place of the Financial Times Rankings of European Masters Programmes. French business schools have a reputation of excellence in standards of education throughout Europe and the proof of this can be seen in the latest rankings by the Financial Times, clearly dominated by French Business Schools. This ranking is a measure of quality for all candidates searching for a Masters programme in Europe. Read next page

EDHEC's finance students were among around 1200 participants of the fourth edition of the EDHEC Alternative Investment Days at the ExCeL Centre in London on 9th and 10th December. The conference presented the applied research conducted by the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre with leading pension fund managers and lead to discussion of the results with the institutional investor and fund manager communities. This event is the largest European conference on hedge funds and has become one of the highlights in EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre's calendar. Read next page

This annual event provides the opportunity to meet exchange students coming from all parts of the world and learn about their school, country, culture and people or simply ask any questions that students might have to make the right decision about their very own academic exchange. Read next page

The Theseus-EDHEC MBA participants have just returned from their first business trip to the north African country of Morocco as part of their Global Business Module. This much-appreciated course sets the Theseus-EDHEC MBA apart from more conventional MBA programmes as for 2 week-long sessions, the participants are taken to an emerging economy to learn first-hand about international business practices, study different leadership styles and find out more about the political issues of the country. Read next page

To provide maximum company contacts for students regular business lunches with company representatives are organised by various departments at EDHEC Business School. The MSc in Marketing Management students recently had one such lunch to discuss recruitment possibilities with representatives of the Redcats group, the leader in home shopping with 15 brands present in 29 countries. Read next page

As the recruitment season kicks in, various companies are making their annual trips to Engineering and Business Schools. Thanks to the school’s Career Centre’s organisation, EDHEC had the pleasure of welcoming on campus Société Générale, on November 24 to make a presentation on the recruitment process and full-time / gap-year placement opportunities available in the Bank. Read next page

To encourage entrepreneurship and creativity in the students, EDHEC recently organised a roundtable discussion on Entrepreneurship led by EDHEC’s Professor Dominique Serio. Read next page

Distinguished Speaker on Islamic Finance Harvesh Seegolam, an advisor in Financial Services Board of Investment, Mauritius was guest lecturer for the students of the MSc in Finance recently, sharing his expertise on the functioning of the contemporary world of Islamic finance. Read next page

Since 2006, students wishing to study in EDHEC’s MSc in Risk and Asset Management have been able to apply to the Singapore Financial Sector Development Fund (FSDF) Finance Scholarship Programme (FSP), a scholarship fund administered by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Now this possibility has been extended to EDHEC’s MS in Finance, allowing more talented students to benefit from this privileged opportunity. Read next page

The 2008 edition of the Advances in Asset Allocation seminar jointly organised by CFA Institute and the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre took place in London recently. This annual event takes stock of the latest research advances in asset allocation and clarifies the distinction between true innovation and mere marketing claims in emerging industry trends. Read next page

A panel of industry practioners and recruiters in the field of consulting got together on EDHEC’s campus in Nice last week for a highly interactive round table, offering Masters and MBA students invaluable advice on getting Consulting jobs and internships. Read next page

In a newly-released position paper by Samuel Sender, entitled “Banking: Why Does Regulation Alone Not Suffice? Why Must Governments Intervene?” EDHEC warns that prudential regulations for banking and other financial institutions are pro-cyclical and tend to reinforce the impact of the economic cycle on the balance sheet. Read next page

Interview with Anne Zuccarelli on the recently launched “Talent Identification and Career Development Programme” Read next page

Inspired by corporate best practice, this career preparation programme offers students an exceptional grounding for successful international careers. Under the guidance of a personal Career Counsellor, students will be given tailor-made tools and workshops to further develop their competencies according to their personal Development Centre results. Read next page

October 20, 2008
Banks and Financial Institutions from across Europe were invited to meet EDHEC students and present careers, job and internship opportunities last week. The event was organised to enable students to meet representatives from London-based investment banks, European and French banks and business organisations. Leading financial institutions from Europe and the UK participated in the event. Read next page

A three hour seminar on effective self Marketing was conducted by the Bill Faust in the Nice campus recently. The seminar focused on identifying and evidencing what you are employed for. Understanding the needs and motivations of the buyer, fitting your competencies and transferrable skills to position yourself in the most attractive package/brand to the buyer (employer). Read next page

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Spreading EDHEC’s outstanding reputation in the world of Finance across the Atlantic, EDHEC’s Prof Joëlle Miffre, Professor of Finance and member of the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre, conducted a Seminar on Investing in Commodities in New York last month. She was joined by Hilary Till, co-founder of Premia Capital Management, LLC, a principal of Premia Risk Consultancy, Inc., and research associate with the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre. Prof Till, who is a practitioner, delivered a practical insight into how she manages risk and the hedging strategies she uses for her portfolio. Read next page

The Theseus EDHEC MBA was placed an impressive 7th in the World in the latest MBA Rankings published by QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) for the category Average Starting Salary Post MBA. Read next page

Each year EDHEC Business School welcomes a number of high profile students who have been awarded one of the coveted Eiffel scholarships for excellence, awarded by French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and run by EGIDE. Read next page

Industry veteran turned head hunter cum executive coach Mr Patrick Fearon was on the Nice campus on the evening of October 8, 2008 to give a guest lecture on Investment Banking career paths to the students of Msc and MBA programme. Patrick spent 16 years with JP Morgan before making a career shift to executive head hunting and executive coaching. The video telecast of the presentation was available the following day for EDHEC students to review on the School’s on-line learning platform. Read next page

Another insightful evening on EDHEC's Nice campus for the students interested in careers in Investment Banking was recently organised in a cooperation between the School's Finance department and the Careers Centre. Read next page

EDHEC's Careers Centre organised a one-day seminar on applying to Investment Banks in the UK for Graduate Training Programmes, summer internships and gap year placements. The target audience was mostly the second and third year students of Grande Ecole (Master in Management) programme, who would like to pursue a career in Investment Banking. Read next page

Jean-Louis Beffa, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Saint-Gobain, closed EDHEC’s Strategic Leadership seminar on Monday 20 October, in front of an audience of nearly 300 students. Read next page

Led by an exceptional team of instructors and dissertation directors, a select group of recent university graduates and experienced professionals will spend three years in a demanding doctoral programme. Read next page

EDHEC and EuroPerformance have released their annual rankings of the top UK asset management companies: the Alpha League Table. The Alpha League Table is constructed on the basis of a genuine measure of alpha, using a state-of-the-art methodology developed by EDHEC. Read next page

The Hedge Fund Summit at the EDHEC Alternative Investment Days in London on December 9 and 10 next will focus on the future of the hedge fund industry. The results of an exclusive EDHEC survey on hedge fund reporting will be presented during the Hedge Fund Summit by David Schröder, PhD, Business Analyst with the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre. Read next page

An EDHEC representative will be present at the following student fairs to inform and advise prospective students on EDHEC's wide range of Masters programmes. These fairs provide a privileged moment for personal enquiries about our English-taught MBA, Master of Science and Master in Management programmes. Read next page

The Theseus-EDHEC MBA opened its doors recently to welcome the class of 2009 and celebrate the programme’s 20th year of existence. With 40% women, 22 nationalities, an average age of 32 and with around 7 years professional experience, the new class is very much in line with tradition. The 37 new participants have been at EDHEC Business School for almost a monthand have just finished the final session of their orientation seminar, dedicated to team bonding and personal reflection. Read next page

Team-building, strategy, discovery and understanding were all key words in the recent hands-on learning activity that the MBA participants experienced in the mountains of the Merkantour Park, not far from EDHEC’s campus in Nice. Read next page

It goes without saying that careers development is a strong element within the Theseus-EDHEC MBA and the underlying reason for which many participants actually embark on such a programme. EDHEC Business School’s Careers Service has devised a special programme tailored to MBA participants’ specific needs which include a balance of individual coaching and career orientation work­shops. Read next page

Johnson and Johnson, voted one of the most desirable companies for MBA’s to work for was on campus last week to impress MBA students with their description of exceptional company conditions and available positions in the first in a series of recruitment events organised by EDHEC’s career service. Read next page

Learning more about ourselves and how to adapt to better interact with others is a useful lesson and one which the Theseus-EDHEC MBA participants learned in the form of the MBTI – The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Read next page

2008 Financial Times rankings. The Grande Ecole programme was ranked 9th out of the top 50 European Master programmes. Read next page

The results of the 2008 Financial Times rankings put the Master in Management programme 9th out of the top 50 European Master programmes, gaining EDHEC 3 places on the 2007 rankings. Read next page