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Nail Edikhanov edikhanov@mail.ru/310.4987084 Date 01/06/2015

I am applying for the Doctoral program in Finance within UCLA Anderson School of Management. My desire to attend the Program is driven by my passion to pursue a career in the research and teaching of finance. I believe that the Anderson PhD program would be crucial to the progress of achieving these objectives.
I suppose that my background in finance has prepared me for such a career. All my life through, learning and self-realization have become key values for me: they have been motivating me and pushing me to academic success. I finished high school with a golden medal, got a Masters Degree with honors at a leading Russian university and received a CFA charter. Furthermore, I passed a FRM exam. I have accumulated all those skills in order to be a highly competitive specialist in finance. Finally, I went international and got my MBA degree from UCLA Anderson School of Management in 2014 while also earning the J. Fred Weston Award for Academic Excellence in Finance.
I am deeply grateful to UCLA Anderson for the skills I developed and relationships I built while pursuing my MBA degree. Anderson classes gave me valuable skills to carry on my future academic career. I equipped myself with various tools, essential for economic …show more content…

The first anomaly I faced in my life was value. Having managed a value portfolio in ASAM we heavily outperformed S&P 500 buying midcap value stocks, which had good quality of earnings. It was the first time I saw that quant strategies based on stock market anomalies really work. Then I took great Finance classes at Anderson and learnt a lot about other anomalies, such as momentum and mean-reversion. This gave me pivotal insights into inefficiency of financial markets nowadays. I believe that there are still large unexplored areas of the stock market, which can be interesting for my further

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