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Morning Coffee: The secret incentive to work for Goldman Sachs. The $35k...
Conflicted about whether you want to work on the sell-side or the buy-side? Get a job at Goldman Sachs and you can do both, apparently. The firm has reportedly given its investment bankers the keys to...
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An equities trader who left Nomura in 2016 landed a top job at J.P. Morgan
Two years is a long time to be out of the market, particularly when you’re a trader. And yet, a trader who left Nomura in 2016 and who hasn’t been employed since according to his LinkedIn profile, just...
View ArticleFrom game theory to leadership: how my EMBA changed my view of the world
“After going to one of the best business schools in the world, you can’t possibly ever be the same way again,” says Sue Huey Chuah, who graduated in 2017 from the EMBA-Global Asia, run by London...
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Top hedge fund chooses junior banker as it builds its equities team
Millennium Management is bringing in junior bankers as it looks to build its equities team under Peter Santoro, the former global head of equities trading at Morgan Stanley whom it hired in February...
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CFA exam day, and how to survive it
Next Saturday is the June sitting of the 2018 CFA exams. If you’re one of the tens of thousands of candidates enrolled to take the exams then good luck. They are not easy, as the low pass rate...
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Goldman Sachs brings back former prop trader as an MD
Goldman Sachs isn’t just losing managing directors; it’s hiring them too. The firm just re-hired a longtime veteran of the company who formerly worked within the firm’s most lucrative and controversial...
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The problem with getting promoted at Google
There are people at Google in Mountain View who want to work for Goldman Sachs in New York. Seriously. We have spoken to them. – People who think that working for banks like Goldman Sachs, which claim...
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“Rich Singaporean students are turning the banking job market into a rat race”
I’ve just started a front-office summer internship at a leading European investment bank in Singapore. Landing an internship is never straightforward, but for someone like me – who comes from a lower...
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Morning Coffee: Bank CEO’s warning to bankers under 30. Bill Gross and the...
Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman has been an intermittent source of advice for ambitious young bankers over the ages, recommending, for example, that they “pace themselves,” spend some time working...
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The summer interns are here: “I expect to work from 9am to 2am”
If Generation Z are supposed to want flexibility and work-life balance, someone forgot to communicate this to the young people who are turning up to work in banks this summer: they expect to work hard...
View Article“It’s about engaging at all levels, not just the top.” How Morgan Stanley’s...
Morgan Stanley is all about the three Cs: collaboration, communication and coordination. This is very much reflected in its approach to diversity, particularly when it’s championing the cause of its...
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Why an MBA still trumps a master’s in finance in banking
A decade ago, an MBA was clearly the top qualification to have if you wanted to start down the path toward a high-level job in banking. Then quietly, more top business schools began offering an...
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This is what Jefferies’ Q2 results are saying about your banking job
Jefferies has just released its results for the second quarter of 2018. If you work for a bank, their message is mixed. 1. Good times for fixed income traders did not last Firstly, it turns out that...
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The quant hedge fund that spun off from Credit Suisse is doing some big hiring
Remember Qube Research and Technologies? It’s the $1bn quantitative and systematic hedge fund that spun out of Credit Suisse last year. It’s hiring. Since the start of 2018, QRT insiders say the fund...
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Morning Coffee: Bank of America and Credit Suisse want old-school traders –...
In recent years, equities trading has looked like the dystopian scenes at the start of The Terminator, with human beings stuck in increasingly precarious niches, hiding from the high frequency and...
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Some advice for the mistaken young people I interview for hedge fund jobs
Lately, I’ve been interviewing some candidates for a junior analyst role at my firm. As you would expect, we want smart individuals who can think outside the box. We want dedicated people who are...
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How to get a job working for Jacob Rees-Mogg’s egalitarian hedge fund
If you work in the City of London, you may not want to work for Jacob Rees-Mogg. The Conservative MP for North East Somerset is, after all, synonymous with the sort of hard Brexit that most people in...
View ArticleWhere European banks are hiring and firing on Wall Street now
European banks often walk in stride with each other when it comes to U.S. strategy, investing in similar business lines while pulling back in others as appropriate. But not this year. European banks...
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Do you still need the CFA to work on Wall Street? Or is it all about Asia now?
The CFA exams are one of America’s most successful exports. As Donald Trump looks around for ways to make America great again, he might want to cast an eye upon a series of exams first conceived by a...
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Morning Coffee: The tragedy of the ex-UBS trader now running a burger...
What do you do when you’re banned from working in finance by the regulator after a 15 year career as a trader? How about opening a chain of fancy burger restaurants in London? This was the route taken...
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