This Barclays managing director is the latest senior banker to launch his own...
Going it alone is the new thing for senior investment bankers. Maybe they’re trying to emulate Simon Robey and Simon Warshaw by eating up bulge bracket banks’ market share, but setting up a boutique...
View ArticleInvestment banks’ analysts are not flooding to the buy-side, says T. Rowe...
Steph Jackson, the director of equity research for North America at T. Rowe Price, now manages 90-plus research analysts in the asset management giant’s Baltimore headquarters, where he’s worked for a...
View ArticleCareer reinvigoration when you leave Nomura: 3 lessons
Banking careers often follow a certain gravitational trajectory: start high, and move progressively lower before quitting the industry altogether for ‘fintech,’ or maybe real estate, or maybe cookery...
View ArticleThe best and worst hedge funds to work for in 2017: two charts by Deutsche Bank
The good news is that some hedge funds still want human beings. The bad news is that – based on assets under management – not all hedge funds will want as many human beings in future. This is the...
View ArticleThese are the skills you need to survive in banking tech: adapt or die
Barely a week goes by without a major bank announcing a restructure, transformation programme, or rebalancing of their strategy. Despite this, banks are still investing heavily in technology, but the...
View Article“I’ve been a banker for 21 years. This Executive MBA helps me serve clients...
As a senior private banker at Credit Suisse in Singapore, Mary Ann Gabriel serves some of Asia’s wealthiest entrepreneurs. “Many of my clients are self-made. They might have started by opening a tiny...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: The most intelligent man at Goldman Sachs. The most unpopular...
If you want to work for Goldman Sachs you won’t have to complete a numerical test. Nor will you have to achieve a first class or summa cum laude degree. Goldman doesn’t go in for any of that stuff, but...
View ArticleSome of SocGen’s most senior quants are now launching their own firms
Quants are the new hot thing in investment banking, but they’re also (relatively) under-paid and under-appreciated. It’s not like they don’t have other opportunities. Good quants can find jobs at...
View ArticleHere’s how much everyone else earns at Blackrock in London
George Osborne is getting a good “package” from Blackrock. In exchange for four days a month of his time, Blackrock is bestowing upon him £650k ($790k) a year. That’s £13.5k a day, or £1.7k an hour....
View ArticleCantor Fitzgerald just made a big hire from Credit Suisse in NYC
Cantor Fitzgerald has hired Greg Dabal, a former Credit Suisse managing director, for its prime brokerage business. Dabal joined Cantor’s NY office this month according to his LinkedIn profile. He’s an...
View ArticleEight questions to ask yourself before going into investment banking
Have you really thought about what life is like working for an investment bank? Before you start your career, ask yourself these ten questions. 1. How important is work-life balance to me during the...
View ArticleAnother investment bank’s head of equities in London has departed
Working in a senior cash equities job an investment bank is a perilous place to be. Tim Throsby aside, few heads of equities come out looking better from the current slide in revenues well and many are...
View ArticleThe 20 top data scientists in banking and finance
As data scientists displace rainmakers and traders as the most sought after people in finance, a new group of people hold the keys to the industry’s future. The promotion of Marty Chavez, a...
View ArticleHuman creativity needs to outsmart the robots, says Allianz GI manager
Students wanting to working in asset management face a shrinking job market as technology takes over from humans – but it’s still possible to “outsmart” the robots, says a senior Singapore-based...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: J.P. Morgan keeps tabs on employees 24/7. Hedge fund tries...
J.P. Morgan is following Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs by shaking up its annual review process away from purely ranking people every year and more towards keeping a constant check on their...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank juniors are being targeted by this start-up
Junior investment bankers who specialise in tech companies have a new option to make the leap into a business development role (very) early in their career – online food delivery firm, Deliveroo has...
View Article11 things you don’t know about pay at UBS
UBS’s 2016 compensation report is out along with its annual report. The Swiss bank is less generous with its bonuses than it used to be, but it’s mitigating that in other ways. This is what you need to...
View ArticleBonuses are a beautiful thing, here’s how to handle your first
Ah, that first bonus. So many things you’ve spent it on before it’s even in your pocket. You remember the feeling: anxious all day, sitting, waiting for your name to be called. The long stroll towards...
View ArticleMorgan Stanley has just hired Obama’s counter-terrorism guru into an MD role
Why would Morgan Stanley hire a counter-terrorism expert from the Obama administration who has spent her entire career working for the U.S. military and parachute her in as a managing director? The...
View ArticleI started a junior IBD job when I had a toddler. It was impossible, so I quit...
When you go into a junior investment banking job, you give up on your personal life. Partners fall away, friends become distant and your apartment becomes a place to lay your head for a few hours every...
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