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“Call me brave, call me stupid – I’m an ex-Credit Suisse director who’s taken...
Call me brave, call me stupid, but in my 16 year banking career I’ve taken two long career breaks.The first time I took a break was in 2001. My daughter had just been born and I thought it would be...
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How to survive as a quant AND a trader as Big Data takes over
One of the most impactful elements of the big-data era, especially for traders, is the rise of predictive analytics – using statistics, data analysis and modelling to identify patterns and forecast...
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Why Chinese tech giants are hiring investment bankers
Large Chinese technology firms are increasingly seeking to hire investment bankers – including associates and VPs – to help them with their takeovers, listings and international expansions. And if...
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One in three Goldman Sachs staff in Singapore went to a local university
Do you need to spend thousands studying overseas to get a job at Goldman Sachs in Singapore?While having an elite foreign degree on your CV certainly won’t harm your chances, almost a third (32%) of...
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Morning Coffee: Senior UBS MD says things changing faster than you thought....
George Athanasopoulos knows a thing or two about investment banks’ sales and trading businesses. He’s been a managing director (MD) in investment banks since 2003 – first at Merrill Lynch, then at...
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Another former bank prop trader has left Brevan Howard
Traders are disappearing from hedge fund Brevan Howard with increasing regularity. The latest to leave is James Watson, a former Morgan Stanley managing director who joined the hedge fund five years...
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J.P. Morgan, Goldman, CS analysts switch to private equity as M&A dries up
It’s seasonal: every year, the top analysts and associates in investment banking businesses migrate across to careers in private equity after their bonuses have been banked. This year, however, the...
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“Why I don’t want to run a hedge fund any more”
If you want to work in finance, you might well want to work in a hedge fund. Many view hedge funds as the pinnacle of a finance career. However, the hedge fund sector has changed.Hedge funds have many...
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Goldman’s head of trade execution on how the sector will change by 2020
The financial services industry continues to be transformed by e-trading, trading pits closing, the popularity of passive/index investment products and the Dodd-Frank Act, among many other factors.Five...
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Would you spend $61k for a job at HSBC?
If you’re tossing up between a Masters in Finance degree or an MBA, bear this in mind – Goldman Sachs is more likely to hire you with an MBA, HSBC is most likely to take you on with a MiF.London...
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Meet seven of the most impressive Chinese students about to start internships...
The Chinese summer internship season is almost upon us. While investment banks don’t recruit students in the same numbers in Beijing and Shanghai as they do in New York and London, the quality of their...
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Morning Coffee: 3 future-proof jobs at Goldman Sachs. 56-year-old Barclays...
As Goldman Sachs embarks upon a round of fortified cost-cutting, which jobs will be immune to the change buffeting its securities business? Try the areas Goldman plans to invest in.During a...
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A Citi M&A director left for a new energy boutique, where he’s become a partner
M&A bankers in general are not having a good year and energy M&A bankers in particular are having a bad year. Maybe this is why Pavel Svistula, one of Citi’s directors in energy M&A, has...
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The 20 most desirable jobs in the financial sector in 2016
If you’re venturing out into the financial services job market now, it helps to know what competition you’re up against. With investment banks cutting heads, hedge funds floundering and asset managers...
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Why private equity firms need to be more like investment banks – and fire people
Private equity is supposed to be the promised land. Spend a couple of years in the tumultuous world of investment banking, before beating the (stiff) competition for a move to the buy-side for more...
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Here’s what investment banks have done to cut working hours
Millennials are not like their predecessors. Yes, they want the high pay associated with junior investment banking jobs. No, they don’t want the crazy, exhausting, lifestyle of 80 hour+ working...
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6 top asset management executives who got an MBA but skipped the CFA
Becoming a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder is an impressive feat. Only 42% of the 51,134 candidates who took the Level I exam in June 2015 and 43% of the 52,315 candidates that took it...
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Here’s what your risk salary and bonus should be in Hong Kong
More risk management jobs are opening up in Hong Kong as banks hire staff to tackle a growing range of risks and an ever-changing regulatory burden.As a result, risk professionals in the city are often...
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The six hottest programming languages in Singapore banking technology
Banks continue to hire for IT jobs in Singapore – Citi, J.P. Morgan and Standard Chartered are among the global firms building out their technology hubs in the city state.But Singapore technology roles...
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Morning Coffee: Rare career advice from hedge fund and banking legends. The...
Senior financiers are optimists, at least in public. While commentators see chaos, they see pipelines, cycles and turnarounds on the horizon.So, it’s no surprise that while consultants predict a...
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