Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general. Let's get to it.

In this episode, Yuri shares his winding path starting out graduating from his master's program in

London right at the start of the global financial crisis and turning down an offer to start at Goldman Sachs to travel the world and try to get

into a more direct investing role. Listen to his great advice on specific questions to ask when

interviewing for asset management or hedge fund roles as a junior analyst. And also make sure to

check out his blog, snippet.finance, a place where he shares interesting snippets of financial data and analysis.

Enjoy.

All right.

All right, Yuri, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thanks very much.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Yeah, absolutely.

So probably take you all the way back.

I'm originally from Armenia.

I was born there, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, I moved back to,

well, we moved to Denmark.

That's where I grew up.

So I've got quite an international background. And I went to international schools here in Denmark

and decided that the best place to go was the UK. And I started studying there. I did my

undergraduate at Cambridge for three years, study economics. and then I did this master's at

LSC for one year studying sort of completing my studies in economics and this

was around 2008 timeframe is when I finished my master's

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