Senior Asian banking jobs staffed by people from second-rate schools
Wall Street wants Ivy League. The City of London wants Oxbridge or LSE. If you want to make it to the top jobs in Singapore or Hong Kong, is there an ideal university? Yes. Your degree will almost...
View ArticleChina’s bankers worry about pay as the market slumps
China’s stock market is unusually skewed towards individual investors without much capital markets knowledge. With stocks down around 30% in the past three weeks, these individual investors have been...
View ArticleJunior bankers’ poor dietary habits inspire new business
The first few years of your investment banking career are about adjusting expectations. You are not the Master of the Universe. You are not flying around the world schmoozing clients. You are sitting...
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The best banking jobs when you’re in your 20s
Being a 20-something banker is like being a 50-something poet. You’re in your prime. Long hours come as easily as iambic pentameters and jobs flow to you like readings in village halls. Just how easy...
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The languages that will get you a job at Goldman Sachs
You want to work for Goldman Sachs. Which language will get you there? The firm itself has been promulgating the chart below on its Google+ page. If you want to work for GS, it helps to converse in...
View ArticleCan you save money as a junior in investment banking?
Junior bankers can earn a lot of money. They can also spent a lot of money. Living near the office in a leading financial centre like London doesn’t come cheaply and if you’re not careful, the two...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Shock as Asian private bank decides NOT to recruit private...
Most private banks are trying to capture more Chinese clients by hiring more Hong Kong-based relationship managers (RMs) to manage mainland money – skill shortages in Hong Kong private banking have...
View Article13 questions you will always be asked in a corporate banking interview (and...
You are about to interview for a relationship manager job in corporate banking. What questions should you expect and how should you answer them? We have identified 13 key corporate banking job...
View ArticleMeet the 2015 Goldman Sachs analyst class
It’s not just Morgan Stanley: Goldman Sachs’ new analysts are also at their desks around the world. As at Morgan Stanley, they are generally the sorts of exceptional human beings who make you wonder...
View ArticleJ.P. Morgan has been hiring fixed income professionals ahead of its results
Tomorrow, J.P. Morgan will report its second quarter results. CFO Marianne Lake will deliver the numbers in her estuary British accent and we will find out how well the fixed income currency and...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Banks’ efforts to hire more Singaporeans start to pay off
When the Singapore government launched the Fair Consideration Framework – legislation which encourages employers to hire more locals – nearly a year ago, it was unclear whether banks’ initial vocal...
View ArticleSix of the best junior jobs at BAML, CS, GS, HSBC, JPM and MS in Hong Kong now
It’s the second half of the year and you’re a 20-something front-office banker in Hong Kong. The post-bonus hiring season is well and truly over and the mainland Chinese market is getting hammered. It...
View Article“I applied for 2,000 jobs before getting directly into private equity”
So you want to work in private equity (PE) straight out of university? You’ll be lucky. The traditional route into private equity involves doing your time at a top investment bank, learning the dark...
View Article10 skills that finance recruiters really want now
Which skills should you be listing on your perfect investment banking CV if you aspire to find a new job in the second half of 2015? Based upon searches on the eFinancialCareers CV database in the past...
View Article8 things J.P. Morgan’s second quarter is saying about your finance job
J.P. Morgan’s second quarter results are out. They’re ok, but they’re not the numbers of a bank in the middle of hiring spree. This is what you know if you aspire to work for Jamie Dimon – or if you...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Looking for an Asian finance job? Try the Big Four in HK, not...
Where should you turn to for an Asian finance job over the next six months? The Big Four in Hong Kong. And where should you avoid? International banks in Singapore – so says a new survey. Professional...
View Article“Too far from the food court” and nine other awful excuses for job hopping in...
It’s the perpetual complaint of senior bankers and recruiters in both Hong Kong and Singapore: the CVs of young finance professionals are cluttered with too many short stints at too many different...
View ArticleAre you overworked? Here’s how many hours ‘ordinary’ people work per week
When Dutch journalist and anthropologist Joris Luyendijk interviewed young bankers for a book financial services culture, he was struck by the subversion of standard morality to ‘time in the office.’...
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Why BAML looks weaker than J.P. Morgan in 2015
Yesterday J.P. Morgan released its second quarter results. Today is the turn of Bank of America. Guess which investment bank did best in Q2? It was not Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML). Bank of...
View ArticleWhat exactly is an assistant vice president at Barclays investment bank?
When is an ‘assistant vice president’ not a vice president at all, but more like an associate – or even an analyst? When he or she is at Barclays’ investment bank. At least, this is the conclusion...
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