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How to survive in the new era of equity research
In Europe, equity researchers are looking towards the implementation of MiFID II – if and when it ever happens – with a strange combination of dread and hope. On the one hand, the regulation’s...
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The most interesting new hires at U.S. hedge funds at the start of spring
While investment banks tighten their belts and make cuts, some hedge funds in the U.S. have continued to add staff as the weather is warming up on Wall Street and spring is in full swing. These are the...
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Standard Chartered to hire 300 new techies in Singapore this year
Standard Chartered is hiring 300 new information technology staff in Singapore for its corporate and institutional bank (CIB) as it embarks on a major digital upgrade in the division. The bank is...
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Seven reasons why analysts and associates in Asia don’t get jobs
Junior finance professionals in Singapore and Hong Kong are in comparatively strong demand as banks cut costly senior staff. But if you’re an analyst or associate in Asia, the interview process for...
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Morning Coffee: Key facts you missed from Goldman’s Q1 earnings. No Ivy...
After Goldman Sachs announced its first-quarter results yesterday, you probably read the headlines proclaiming that the bank’s profits and bonuses plunged. You likely saw that its quarterly profit...
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The secret dress codes at Deutsche, Goldman, Credit Suisse and elsewhere
If you work for any investment bank you must not wear flipflops, braces [aka suspenders on Wall Street], or a pastel suit. But does the dress code differ from bank to bank? Should your appearance vary...
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Citadel still hiring from Goldman Sachs and elsewhere in London
Citadel is still hiring for its London office. New additions to the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) register suggest the hedge fund is bringing in commodities traders, equities professionals and...
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Jefferies has been poaching traders and researchers from Barclays, Credit...
Jefferies has been quietly hiring senior bankers from larger banks that are cutting back in London. Hamish Crumley, the former head of global emerging markets sales trading at Barclays, joined...
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How to get ‘facetime’ with senior bankers when you’re just a student
I’ll let you in on a secret. I recently became the campus ambassador for the bank I am interning in this summer. It was possibly one of the most valuable things I have ever done. As an ambassador, I’ve...
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This Hong Kong investment banker can help you get your next job
Most investment bankers are supremely focused on career advancement – their own. But Sherjan Husainie, a Hong Kong-based Canadian banker, takes a different approach. Since 2010 he’s spent much of his...
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Credit Suisse, UBS, Stan Chart begin battle to hire ex-J.P. Morgan bankers in...
Private banks in Asia are contacting headhunters in a bid to hire the 30 relationship managers (RMs) that J.P. Morgan has axed in the region. The US bank made the cull – which reduces its RM headcount...
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Morning Coffee: The £9.5m banking job nobody wants. JPM, Barclays and Citi...
Would you like a £9.5m ($13.6m) job as CEO of Barclays investment bank? If so, you may be in a minority. – Barclays has reportedly decided to leave the job unfilled because no one (good) wants to do...
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Millennium Capital hires senior trader from J.P. Morgan
Millennium Capital Management, the hedge fund with a reputation for both lifting out investment banks’ traders and churning its money management staff at the mere whiff of underperformance, is hiring...
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“My control freak boss demanded I call him every 5 minutes when he was on...
It’s normal to hear shouting and cursing on the trading floor of a hedge fund. There’s a lot of money at stake, and the pressure to perform well is intense, so people are bound to get heated. So when...
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9 things you need to know about Blockchain’s impact on banking jobs, by...
Morgan Stanley’s banking analysts have released a big new report on the impact of Blockchain in banking. If you’re concerned about future-proofing your finance career against the impact of Blockchain,...
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Young Hong Kong bankers who’ve made exciting career changes
Internship, traineeship, junior investment banking job at a global firm – it’s the typical path that hundreds of Hong Kong students aspire to. But you don’t need to follow career convention to...
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How Hong Kong and Singapore students can get jobs at J.P. Morgan
You’re a student at a university in Hong Kong or Singapore looking to get your first break into investment banking. But you think that internships at global banks are full of high-achievers from Ivy...
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Morning Coffee: The worst thing about the new Wall Street bonus rules. Hedge...
Bankers on Wall Street are about to get some of the medicine already dispensed to their European colleagues. By the Wall Street Journal’s calculations, 52,000 people working for JP Morgan, Bank of...
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The undercover hedge fund managers who DON’T feature on rich lists
Do you want to work for a hedge fund and haul in millions every year, if not billions over the course of your career? Good luck – most people earn ‘only’ $100-300k who work in the industry. But then...
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Nomura’s job cuts extend to IBD – and juniors
Nomura has not just been making deep cuts to its equities business. In London, M&A has been impacted too and headhunters suggest that juniors have been particularly targeted. Nomura’s natural...
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