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The perfect graduate CV for investment banking
If you want to get into investment banking straight out of university – if you want to get an analyst job, in other words – you’ll need to be good on paper. In fact, you’ll need to be very good on...
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Morning Coffee: Why now is a great time to clinch a big pay rise in Asian...
With the Chinese stock rout, the devaluation of the yuan and the slowing of the Singaporean economy, you would assume that now isn’t a great time to push for a big pay rise when you move employers in...
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The best Hong Kong universities for getting a front office investment banking...
Hong Kong is the de facto financial centre for the Greater China region, and Hong Kong’s universities send a good proportion of its graduates into finance and banking each year. But do graduates from...
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Nine reasons why 40-something bankers in Singapore and Hong Kong don’t get jobs
You’re a middle-aged banking professional and you’ve worked in Hong Kong or Singapore for 20 odd years as your city has blossomed as a global financial centre. Not many people locally can match your...
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Can you really earn more in finance by studying at French universities?
Before you think about shelling out £67.7k for an MBA at London Business School, or pat yourself on the back for getting a position at Oxford or Cambridge University, consider this – you will earn more...
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Poker-star hedge fund trader leaves Tudor Capital
Two years ago, Lawrie Inman – a former young gun trader who hauled in seven-figure compensation packages in the pre-crisis boom – gave up his new career as a professional poker player and race horse...
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Equity research: a young man’s game?
Equity research is changing. The looming spectre of MiFID II, which stipulates that the buy-side must separate out the money it pays for research from other fees it pays investment banks, has increased...
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The transatlantic divide in hedge fund pay
You’re a trader in an investment bank, desperate for your ticket to the buy-side in order to (supposedly) make your millions. Here’s the thing – if you’re in London, you’re in for a disappointment. If...
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Morning Coffee: Key target of investment banks quit for tech, the art of the...
Investment banks want to hire people who really, really want to work in investment banking. Investment banks want to hire more women and ensure they reach senior positions. Unfortunately, these women...
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The winners and losers in banking after the Yuan slump
Shockingly and out of the blue China’s central bank decided to devalue RMB from Tuesday. In the past three days, the value of RMB has lost over 3% against the USD. While the panic takes hold of...
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Chinese video firm poaches from BAML, StanChart hires for DCM
August is supposed to be a quiet month for recruitment. Not in Asia-Pacific, though. There’s been a flurry of moves over the past week as banks and other financial institutions bulk up. China’s LeTV...
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Deutsche Bank sees repeat of conditions that led to thousands of banking job...
Remember 1998? If you do, you’re probably long enough in the tooth to be a managing director by now. But it may still make you sweat beneath your embroidered cuffs. As a reminder, 1998 was the year in...
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Brevan Howard has hired RBS’s ex-head of rates trading
Jezri Mohideen, the former head of rates trading for Europe and Asia-Pacific at Royal Bank of Scotland, has joined Brevan Howard. Mohideen was a managing director at RBS until 2012, when he was...
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Comparing investment banks’ training programs – which is best for you?
If you’re preparing your CV in application for a graduate program at an investment bank, you’ve probably been wondering which bank to apply to. Maybe you’ve been looking at the information on our...
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The unspoken rules of recruitment in China
In job adverts political correctness rules. More specifically, most employers are not able to discriminate against minorities or exclude anyone who could be a potential candidate for the job. In China...
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The hottest programming languages in Singapore and Hong Kong
Technology jobs at banks in Singapore and Hong Kong aren’t quite as plentiful as they were five years ago when firms were still building out large global IT centres there. So if you’re perusing a...
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High-paying hedge fund sees profits slide by 60%, increases money management...
Tudor Capital Management has been hiring portfolio managers over the past 12 months despite a dramatic reduction in profits. In another indication that hedge fund hiring doesn’t necessarily reflect the...
View ArticleThere’s only one place you can earn £365k as a compliance professional
You’re a compliance professional with the world at your feet, able to name your price for a new job and choose from an array of employers all baying for your service. Sort of. But before you make the...
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The top universities for the 2015 analyst class at Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan...
Investment banks like to target a select band of universities for their graduate recruitment programmes, and competition for places in the front office remains incredibly intense – as the elite...
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Morning Coffee: Deutsche aims low, SCB aims high in new Asian hiring drives
It’s a rare example of synchronistic hiring announcements: Deutsche Bank, better known for its “ultra high net worth” wealth management services (clients with at least $30m in investable assets),...
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