University of Sydney to CLSA | Chat with Mithun Rathakrishnan | WSO Academy

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Mithun went from completing his Master’s in Finance at the University of Sydney to landing an equity research role at CLSA—without any prior investment banking experience in India. In this episode, he shares: The game-changing difference between equity research and investment banking he learned firsthand How WSO Academy helped him understand the market, master pitch-building, and improve clarity in interviews WHAT IS WSO ACADEMY? It's a 12-week program to dramatically increase your odds of landing a 6-figure+ role in high finance... What’s included? 💥 GUARANTEED offer in high finance 🎓 Full course library for life (over $4k+ of content) 👥 Direct access to 1,300+ top mentors across banks & funds 📚 Tons of live training bootcamps (IB, PE, VC, Excel, etc.) 📄 Full resume rewrite + LinkedIn review (human + AI) 🧠 1:1 work with Head Mentors on TMAY + behavioral questions 🗣️ 6–10+ mock interviews, HireVue prep, Excel + logic assessments 🏢 Internship with WSO for resume branding 📬 Proven networking strategy & outreach software 🧭 Accountability coach & progress matrix 💬 Lifetime access to the exclusive alum Slack community 👉 JOIN WAITLIST HERE: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/academy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IS WSO ACADEMY FOR YOU? Yes, if any of the below sound like you: ✅ You want to break into investment banking but don’t know where to start ✅ You've applied to 100+ jobs and heard nothing back ✅ You’re not sure how to network effectively ✅ Your technical or behavioral answers need work ✅ You’re not from a target school or have below a 3.7 GPA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Land A High Finance Career: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/acade... WSO Academy is the largest online finance community with 1M+ members and 20M+ annual visitors. The 50+ head mentors in the program were handpicked from 1,300+ finance pros. They’ve helped thousands break into Wall Street careers over the past decade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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0:00.0	I went to the University of Sydney, that finance and accounting there.
0:03.4	That's where I first developed my interest across all the finance.
0:06.5	Recently, the last few weeks, I landed a role as a equity research analyst here at CLSA owned by
0:14.4	Citic Securities.
0:16.0	I guess your mock interviews or your technical courses or just, you know, your seven stories.
0:56.1	For me, I love doing it because you feel quite established afterwards. You feel a lot more confident. Looking back at your journey, kind of anything you would have changed or any kind of piece of advice. It's not enough to just be a smart person. You have to really understand. All right, Matun, thanks for taking the time to join us today. Thank you, Patrick. Thank you for having me. It would be awesome if you could just give the listeners kind of a short summary bio where you're from, all the good stuff. Yeah, cool. So I'm in Sydney, so a bit further away from you guys. But grew up in Sydney, I've been working in finance now for a few years. I went to the University of Sydney, did finance and accounting there.
1:00.2	That's where I first developed my interest across a lot of finance.
1:03.8	He made a few people, attend a few networking sessions.
1:09.2	And then I guess my first real exposure was during an internship in university at a boutique investment firm where it wasn't
1:12.9	directly working with equity research, but you're working across the middle market side.
1:17.7	You're supporting the financial advisors.
1:20.4	You're speaking to a lot of people.
1:21.7	And I think that's where it really jump started my interest working within that field of
1:26.7	finance, largely equity research.
1:29.5	Moving down a couple of years, joined a lot in the deal and advisory space, specifically
1:34.4	across capital markets, a lot more consulting-oriented, a lot more deal work.
1:40.9	And it was great skills being built there.
1:44.1	But again, I think having that passion for the equity markets, largely free- And it was great skills being built there.
1:49.5	But again, I think having that passion for the equity markets, largely from a research side, it kind of got me a bit more interested in to, you know, go to shareholder events,
1:55.2	messaging people on LinkedIn, meeting people, doing mutuals.
1:59.6	And I guess not just to get a referral, but I guess
2:03.5	more so just to understand the industry a bit more, take on some advice, what it's like
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