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❖ A brief overview of the project
They are two projects I worked on during my internship
tenure. First one was “Identification & Analysis of
Profitability metrics for Alternative Investment funds and
Mutual funds”. To define the profitability metrics, I looked
in the cost structure of the company and built a excel model
to quantify the distributor expenses. The model helps to
make decisions like whether a particular distributor is
profitable to company or not. To summarize it’s a
descriptive analytical model which helps in strategic
decision making of the AMC. Second project was “Analysis
of European private debt landscape”. This project revolves

around benchmarking the developed european players with
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edelweiss current schemes and look for potential growth
ETLI opportunities.

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No day is like the exactly other , some days it is trying to
GENERAL INFORMATION conceptualize formulas, having brainstorming sessions with

senior management and other days it is doing mundane excel
Batch: PGDIM 25 work. So, on average the day looked something like this:

BTech: Andhra University 8:30 AM: Reach office by this time. Talk with my guide/manager
about the last day progress and take his inputs
Stream: Civil Engineering
9:30AM-7:00PM: Spend the entire day by talking to various

Work Ex: IBM India stakeholders to gather data and make corrections to the
model.

Most of the days it is putting your head down in to the laptop to crunch almost 12 lakhs rows of data and
generating the insights. Sometimes it will be developing the design templates also.

7:00 PM: Meet the guide once again in the evening to clarify the doubts and work on any updates.

Leave the office around 8:00 PM

❖ Challenges faced during internship:

Time management is one of the major challenges, as there are lot of projects to do and I have to prioritize. At
the end I could not complete one project which I agreed to do so.

Data gathering is a challenge because they don’t have any knowledge database and every time, I need to
approach someone, and it takes almost half a day to get that data. And again, its my responsibility to verify

whether that data is correct or not. If incorrect , there goes my entire day of work. Its my responsibility to keep
everyone in loop and keep them posted on the work completed. The challenge here is asking guide to take time
out of their busy schedule and my guide is not a person who asks for status which gives complete freedom but

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