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Morning Coffee: Meet the man who would be the next James Gorman. The #MeToo...
During the analyst call for the Goldman Sachs’ Q3 results, people couldn’t stop asking about its hiring plans. Is it because of MiFID II? Are you just hiring sales people? How are you going to hire all...
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Standard Chartered has just made another big fixed income hire in London
Standard Chartered has continued its recent fixed income sales hiring spree, and has just brought in Michael Agridhiotis as its new head of central bank sales, based in London. Agridhiotis has worked...
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“I was an outsider who made MD at Citigroup before quitting for fintech. This...
I spent 13 years in an investment bank, but never totally felt like a banker. I didn’t come through the usual graduate recruitment programme, or join an associate after an MBA, but instead switched...
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Six ways the CFA exams are about to change
The CFA exams are changing for 2018, and it’s not just an increasing focus on financial technology. In fact, there are nuanced adjustments to the questions related to asset allocation, fixed income,...
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The 25 best-paying hedge funds in the UK
The vast majority of large UK hedge funds have slashed pay for their rank-and-file employees, while many have protected the remuneration of their most senior staff after many struggled to replicate...
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Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan or Morgan Stanley – which has the best internship?
By and large, if you want to work for a large investment bank, you must complete a summer internship first. Now is the time to be polishing up an application in time for the 2018 intake. As well as...
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Ambitious, workaholic, extroverts: The perfect personality for investment...
Want to fit in at Goldman Sachs? You’re likely to be an ambitious extrovert who thrives on stress. If you’re trying to cut it at Citigroup, meanwhile, you have to be a very ambitious workaholic who...
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Goldman Sachs has hired from Morgan Stanley as commodities rebuild begins
Goldman Sachs has swooped on a senior Morgan Stanley commodities salesman as it starts to come good on promises to hire new employees to revive the flagging unit. Benno Meier, who headed up a...
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Nine frighteningly inept Wall Street interview fails
Sometimes you absolutely nail a job interview and you pretty much know that you’ll be called back in for another one or – in a best-case scenario – receive an offer. But sometimes you crash and burn in...
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This expansionary hedge fund has just hired a top salesman from UBS in New York
Balyasny Asset Management, the $12.1bn hedge fund that has been aggressively building its headcount in both London and the U.S. this year, has continued its hiring spree by poaching a top hedge fund...
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My finance career plateaued but I turned it around to become a manager....
Jenna Dessart had, by 2013, built a successful and global career for herself in the asset management sector. She had worked for more than two years at AXA Investment Managers in France and had shifted...
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How to make the cut at Citigroup in the U.S.
Citi’s most recent investment banking analyst class were a select group – just 2% of all applicants were hired by the bank in the U.S. The investment bank’s incoming class is composed of approximately...
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Moelis & Co is hiring senior bankers. Its Q3 results show why
Moelis & Co has been hiring, and now it’s clear to see why. It’s just produced its Q3 results, and posted 26% year on year revenue gains (and is up 13% for the first nine months), largely thanks to...
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Morning Coffee: Top equity trader’s disgusting career epiphany. The City’s...
Murray Roos is a big name in equities trading. As co-head of equities at Citigroup, he’s overseen an expansion of the division that resulted in various senior management shake-ups and a near constant...
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The head of central risk book trading at J.P. Morgan has re-emerged at hot...
Marco Dion, the head of the central risk book trading for equities in Europe at J.P. Morgan who left in April, has re-emerged at a high-profile quant fund run buy former Credit Suisse quants and prop...
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Who’s in the most trouble? Barclays, or Deutsche Bank?
Barclays and Deutsche have several similarities. Both have embattled chief executives. Both have been doing some big hiring. Both need to up their games. And both have just reported very disappointing...
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How much you’ll really earn at Mckinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting Group and...
Consulting jobs have resurged in popularity, both among graduates and MBAs, who have ditched the idea of working for a Goldman Sachs or J.P. Morgan in favour of the supposedly better lifestyle and more...
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Nomura IBD analyst has 16 month break, joins Goldman Sachs
Working in the investment banking division (IBD) of a large international bank can be a tiring experience. Hours are usually long and sleep is usually syncopated. By the second or third year, most...
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Why this computer scientist left Two Sigma for a buy-side fintech firm
Nico Kicillof seemed to have it made. He worked at Microsoft for eight years before landing a top job at quantitative hedge fund giant Two Sigma, where until recently he worked as a vice president of...
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Deloitte, PWC, KPMG & EY. Are the Big Four all the same?
If you’ve decided to work for a Big Four accounting firm, you may be ambivalent about which one you go for. After all, they’re all pretty similar aren’t they? That depends upon who you speak to....
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