Where these words come from

Between 2008 and 2015, Swiss Finance Academy kept an alumni blog where participants in its intensive finance programs wrote about their experience: why they applied, what the days were like in Lugano, Verbier, London and Boston, and what they took with them afterwards. Many wrote within days of finishing. Some wrote years later with a career update.

The blog was published at swissfinancealumni.blogspot.com. Every testimonial here was taken from it on 1 October 2026, and each page keeps the address the post had there.

This site republishes those 91 testimonials on the Academy’s own domain. Each one carries the author’s name as they signed it, their photograph where one was posted, and the date it was posted. The text is reproduced as written; spelling has been corrected in a handful of places and nothing else has been changed. The nine video testimonials are served from this site rather than from the original blog.

The programs described here were the Academy’s in-person summer and executive programs. Swiss Finance Academy now teaches online, through the Investment Banking Course, the Institutional Investors Course, the Mentorship Program and the self-paced Deal Modules. Program structure, locations and availability have changed since these testimonials were written; the current programs are described on swissfinanceacademy.com.

If you are an alumnus

If your testimonial is here and you would like it updated, corrected or removed, or if you would like to add a more recent one, write to [email protected].