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Exhausted? Here’s how I survived 17 years in banking
Investment banking, sales and trading, research: they are all hard jobs. You will likely be stabbed in the back by your colleagues, your clients will slam the phone down on you and pull an order, and...
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Senior trader leaves Moore Capital, founds new London macro fund
Changes are being made to Moore Capital’s European operation to mark the start of 2018. Hassim Osman Dhoda, a former senior macro trader at Moore Capital in London quit at the end of last year and has...
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Here’s what a small bonus does to your mental health
Long working hours may be the largest stressor for bankers, but getting a small bonus can also affect your mental health, especially if you live in an expensive city like New York. Here’s how a small...
View ArticleSeven things to delete immediately from your banking CV
If you’re applying for banking jobs which you’re qualified for and you’re getting nowhere, you can blame your CV. Your CV is supposed to be your shop front and your door-opener, but if it’s deterring...
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Why you can’t afford to quit investment banking yet
It’s 2018, and maybe you have itchy feet. You want to quit banking and go into consulting, or fintech, or private equity, or do something completely different. Are you sure this is such a good idea...
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Deutsche Bank makes its first big hire of 2018
Deutsche Bank has made its first big hire of the year by appointing Krisan Haria – a former senior trader at KCG Holdings with expertise in data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence –...
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Seven tips for acing the Series 7 and other financial exams
Success in the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s General Securities Representative Exam, more commonly known as Series 7, is fundamental to anyone wishing to work in the investment industry in...
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How to make the leap from Wall Street to Main Street CFO
With the turn of the calendar to 2018, many of us contemplate our short- and medium-term career goals. Financial services professionals often ask us how they can parlay their skills from a career in...
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A senior private equity executive just resurfaced in big new job
Senior private equity executive Ralf Ackermann, a former partner and head of the European opportunistic credit fund at Apollo Management, who left the firm in July last year, has finally taken up a new...
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Here’s how much you’ll actually earn at Centerview Partners
M&A boutique Centerview Partners should pay exceptionally well globally for last year. As Business Insider pointed out in late December, Centerview had a “monster” 2017 after working on massive...
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The new worst banks for working hours. And the best
How many hours will you really work in an investment bank now? After all those initiatives to cut working hours, is it true that banking jobs are about as arduous as a long shift at the Big Four? Not...
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J.P. Morgan hired another top technologist from Deutsche and Goldman Sachs
J.P. Morgan has brought on board another top technologist with a Goldman pedigree who was latterly at Deutsche Bank, Jim Adams has joined the firm as a managing director, engineering and architecture...
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Salaries and bonuses for top performers at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan,...
Once, it was a mystery how much banks paid their top performers. – Headhunters had information as did pay benchmarking firms, but the data was always parsed through third parties. Nowadays, we know...
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You’re in the wrong Wall Street job. Here’s what to do about it
If you’re miserable in your current job, don’t assume you’re stuck. The robots may be coming for you, or your business area may be in structural decline, but there is hope – follow these steps to land...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about your future finance job in Singapore
Professor Benedict Koh (Associate Dean of Postgraduate Finance Programmes at Singapore Management University) has a clear vision for the future of Singapore as a leading global financial centre and a...
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Meet the Citi MD creating a “meritocracy on the trading floor” in Singapore
Ten years ago Julia Raiskin thought it would be “almost impossible” to get to the top in the banking sector and be mother to three young children. Raiskin was about seven years into her career at the...
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Morning Coffee: The worst that can happen when you walk away from a job in...
It’s 2018 and you’re thinking of quitting your job in finance. Other lives beckon: becoming a professional squash player, playing politics, writing a novel… However, two recent cases of banking...
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Goldman’s already hired three new managing directors in 2018
We’re one week into the new year, and Goldman Sachs has already made three big hires. The firm has brought on board Matthew S. Rothman, former head of global quantitative equity research at Credit...
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Deutsche Bank hiked salaries for its VPs in London
It’s happening again: Deutsche Bank is increasing salaries. Senior vice presidents in M&A at Deutsche Bank in London say their salaries have been lifted from £155k to £170k ($203k to $230k) to...
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Why bankers struggle to live on a salary alone
People who don’t work in finance think bankers are all inordinately rich. This isn’t necessarily the case – especially at the start. When I started out in banking in 1999 I was on a $40k salary. I’m...
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