Dispatches from the SIC academic desk — rubric explainers, S15 season bulletins, Omaha Dialogue recaps, and alumni notes. The desk publishes during active seasons and goes quiet between them.
For China-based students, US-listed Chinese companies feel familiar, but ADRs carry extra structural, regulatory and currency layers. Here is how to analyse one for the SIC.
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Cheap is not a thesis. Learn what an investment catalyst is, the main types, how to find one, and how to time it to the Student Investment Challenge…
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A working toolkit of the liquidity, leverage, profitability and efficiency ratios that turn a company's financial statements into a defensible SIC thesis.
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What IB, A-Level and AP economics or business courses actually prepare you for in SIC, the four skill gaps school never covers, and an eight-week bridge plan to…
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How SIC competitors can use free earnings-call transcripts to judge management quality: the anatomy of a call, five listening signals, and a repeatable 60-minute workflow.
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A student framework for testing whether a company has a real economic moat: five moat types, the evidence that proves or breaks each one, and how to write…
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The biggest threat to a SIC thesis is often the analyst, not the market. Seven cognitive biases that weaken student reports, how judges spot them, and habits that…
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Evidence quality is a scored SIC axis, yet most teams cite the wrong sources. Where to find reliable data, how to rank sources, and how to cite them…
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Building a SIC portfolio is day one; running it for weeks is the test. A practical guide to sizing by conviction, when to sell, and using the weekly…
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SIC's Senior engine is a research brief plus a defense. Learn to write it — falsifiable risks, pre-empted counter-arguments — and why its format is unpublished. Confirm officially.
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Before you value a company or read a 10-K, you need a sector view. Walk the top-down research funnel for SIC — macro to sector to company —…
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The SIC Senior Division runs in teams of 2–4. Learn how to assign roles, run a weekly cadence, and avoid the team failures that quietly cost points on…
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