Upon researching it, I discovered that the University of Warwick granted only a BA in Accounting and Financial Analysis in 1980, but there was a degree there that is much more suited for young Mr. Mahrez, given that he wants to run his own hedge fund and is an intuitive mathematician. Joint honors degree in Mathematics and Business Studies.
Fez Mahrez and my as-yet-unnamed British ubernerd shared several classes for two years, as the BSc Mathematics and Business Studies (Hons) is abtruse, analytical and founded in two years of mathematical education taught at the Department of Mathematics, with only the third year taught by the faculty of the School of Industrial and Business Studies (SIBS).
That fits well and explains why Mahrez also needed two years at LSE in an MBA program before starting to invest money for his father, then other relatives and friends of his father, followed by high net worth clients referred to him by happy Moroccan millionaires and other friends of his father. Even when his hedge fund goes over a billion pounds under management, he still has few enough clients so that massaging their egos is not quite a full-time job. Though he definitely does need to hire a secretary and maybe an executive assistant and someone senior enough so that he can talk to an excitable client without causing offence with a lowly job title.
In any case, the dice have determined that the eventual PhD in Mathematics and Fez Mahrez were rivals. It’s likely that Mahrez offended by not taking maths seriously enough, ‘wasting’ his time on poetry, philosophy, the Quran, reading literature, having a social life and travelling during all vacations. Such dilettante posturing was unworthy of someone who could become a mathematician of note, if he’d only apply himself.
Our as-yet-unnamed mathematician definitely ‘won’ the rivalry, culminating in his Fellowship at CERN. His grades were much higher. On the other hand, Mahrez still achieved a First, comfortably, and left Warwick with a much wider network of connections and friends than his rival. Plus, he probably had more fun.