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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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Morning Coffee: Consultants complain they’re working more than peers, for...
Despite the surging popularity of consulting jobs, there remains one big downside for anyone choosing consulting over the financial sector – the pay. Even consultants at a Big Three firm rarely reach...
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What you need to know about UBS investment bank’s stunning third quarter
UBS’s investment bank has just had a very good quarter. Increased revenues across its advisory business – particularly equity capital markets (ECM), which soared by 132% on Q3 2016 – meant that overall...
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The former head of equities for Americas at BNP Paribas now running...
The former head of equities for the Americas at BNP Paribas, who left the bank in July after more then 25 years in the financial sector, has launched a company that offers home loans to people with...
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This is why some junior bankers make MD and most don’t
There are two types of juniors in banking: those who see the big picture and those who just grind it out with their noses to the screen. Guess which makes managing director (MD)? Not the second. When I...
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CFA, MBA, CAIA, PhD or Masters: What do hedge funds want?
Hedge funds used to focus purely on the all-important ‘track record’ of any potential new employee. But, with a dearth of talent coming out of investment banks, many have started their own graduate...
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Six ways to talk about a terrible former boss during an interview
Whether you were a good leaver or a bad leaver, whether you got fired or laid off or left for a better job or are in fact still employed, it never pays to talk smack about a current or former boss or...
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Young French banker’s claims of outrageous harassment at BNP Paribas
Does BNP Paribas have a problem with sexual harassment? The testimony of one former corporate finance junior at the French bank suggests it does. Or it did – the accusations relate to events six years...
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Morning Coffee: The secretive race to the top at McKinsey. Jocks are coming...
The first rule of making it to the top at McKinsey, is that you don’t talk about making it to the top at McKinsey. The second rule is that you must be super-connected within the firm, and the third...
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