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Algebris Investments interview questions

26 questions researched across 1 Algebris Investments seat in Investment Management. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • Investment AnalystInvestment Management · graduate · 30 min

12 Algebris Investments interview questions

  1. Tell me about a time you changed your mind quickly on new information.

  2. What is an AT1 bond and why does it exist?

  3. Tell us about a time you held a view against the room.

  4. How do you value a bank?

  5. What does a rising cost of risk tell you about a bank's loan book?

  6. Pitch a European financial you would own, and say what kills the trade.

  7. Why did the Credit Suisse AT1 write-down matter beyond one bank?

  8. A concentrated book means fewer, bigger bets. What does that demand of you?

  9. A bank has fourteen billion of CET1 capital against a hundred billion of risk-weighted assets. What's its CET1 ratio, and what happens if a model change inflates RWAs by ten percent?

  10. What's the MDA threshold, and why does an AT1 holder watch the distance to it so closely?

  11. Why do AT1 investors care so much whether a bank calls the bond at its first call date? Explain extension risk.

  12. Walk me down the creditor hierarchy of a European bank in resolution. Who takes losses first?

What a strong answer does

The questions above fall into 4 kinds. What a strong answer does differs by kind, not by question.

Technical7 of 12 above
State the intuition first; walk through the mechanics; make assumptions explicit; test a risk or edge case; connect the answer to the role.
Behavioral3 of 12 above
Lead with the claim and context; isolate your personal action and decision; explain the trade-off; quantify the result; finish with what you learned and changed.
Case1 of 12 above
Clarify the objective; build a mutually exclusive structure; prioritize the highest-value branch; analyze with evidence; synthesize a recommendation, risks, and next step.
Market1 of 12 above
State a view; support it with evidence and a catalyst; explain valuation or transmission; give the strongest countercase; name the risk that would change your mind.

14 more Algebris Investments questions

The rest of the bank — 26 in total — is asked by the interviewer during practice, so you meet them the way you would on the day rather than reading them first.

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How these questions were researched

Every question carries a provenance grade. Some were reported by candidates who sat the round, some come from the firm’s own published guidance or a source that trains for it, and the rest are written to match how this firm asks. Each seat is studied on its own — the round it actually runs, the order it runs it in, and what it is listening for. A Algebris Investments round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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