Lev Kakasenko

So my name is Lev Kakasenko, I am a CFRE™ candidate at the New York Insitute of Finance, previously I worked for the American Chamber of commerce overseas. While living overseas I was able to meet with investors who look at overseas markets and get the opportunity to use quantitative finance in their day to day work to analyze risks and to make judgement calls to whether or not to invest in emerging markets and that’s how my interest in finance, particularly quantitative finance grew and that’s why I’m at NYIF. And in addition, I study Russian and Chinese and I hope that I have the opportunity to use finance in my career and travel the world since finance is becoming a global industry.

Well my interest in finance started when I was working with the American Chamber of Commerce and I got the chance to talk with investors within the organizations and out in the banks around Ukraine. I got to talk to them and understand the risk they faced when choosing to commit capital to developing countries and I began to learn a lot about currency risk and I became very interested in qualitative finance and was looking for programs to strength my skills in quantitative finance and risk management and that’s how I found the NYIF.

I am very happy with the quality of content from the New York Institute of Finance. I’ve had the great pleasure of being able to sit down with the great teachers who not only work at the New York Institute of Finance but work at different financial institutions and manage money for clients and I really enjoy being able to understand not just the theoretical foundations of the content im learning in Risk Management and finance but also understand from the practitioner side how that’s applied within their organizations so that’s been very interesting to me personally.

The instructors are all very knowledgeable and I’m surprised with the quality of content they’ve been teaching here. The New York Institute of Finance is a relatively small company, but the instructors are some of the best which I believe you can find anywhere in financial education. Jack Farmer is very knowledgeable in the content he teaches specifically related to derivatives pricing he’s been very informative and he help me develop a context around the tools of risk management are used and the limitations that come with using those specific tools in both risk management derivatives and quantitative finance as a whole. He has been really helpful along with some of the other professors. So I’ve been happy with the quality of the content they have been teaching me .

I chose NYIF because I started taking their classes online and I was really happy with the quality of the content specifically with the risk management course and being to see Anton up there talking about how risk management changed and why it is important to larger banks and other institutions and that why I become interested in specifically NYIF because the way they teach is very different from how most other universities and financial training companies teach their content and that why I am here taking their courses in person and apart of the CFRE.

I would certainly recommend NYIF to anyone looking to understand how risk management changed over the years and how finance changed as result of technology, changing economy , changing markets and improve on skills previously learn and addition with anyone with a general interest in finance looking to enter the industry and get an edge over the competition on the job I think all most certainly benefit from NYIF and the courses they offer.