An insight into what it’s like to work at Goldman Sachs’ expanding Salt Lake...
Banks facing cost pressures are doing a number of things to limit operational expenses. Perhaps the most effective is moving some operations to lower-cost locales outside of cities like New York,...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Ex-bankers’ favourite hedge fund has $2bn of deferred...
Where do ex-bank traders go when they’re fed up with large supranational institutions? Try BlueCrest, the big bond fund which has branched out into equities and keeps hiring traders from banks....
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What it’s really like to work as a trader at RBS now
It may not be politically appropriate to say so, but remember when RBS was a great trading house? When under Steve Ashley, the rates trading supremo now at Nomura, it was making a fortune in rates?...
View ArticlePity the poor quants at Man Group
Man Group is hiring this year! It’s on course to strip out £270m in costs by 2015, has removed over 530 front office staff in the last two years and has moved into a smaller space within its London HQ...
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So, you were thinking of getting a little project management gig at RBS?...
Not long ago, RBS had a bit of a reputation for being a great place for project managers and change specialists working on lucrative short term contracts. As of today, that gravy train is coming to a...
View ArticleDubious skills that you must never include on your CV
Sometimes getting the attention of a recruiter with your CV requires a few tweaks, in other instances an entire rewrite is required. Careers coaches have told us of their exasperation with financial...
View ArticleThe ten most in-demand banking skills right now
Which banking skill sets are most in demand at this juncture of 2014? This is what we’re seeing across our key markets. 1. Commodities sales and trading: especially Mandarin language skills and Chinese...
View ArticleInterview questions to expect if you want to be an equity research analyst
In our recent informal survey, being an equity research analyst was ranked as one of the most stressful jobs on Wall Street, finishing just behind the ranks of investment bankers, traders and...
View ArticleThe Asian finance sector that’s no longer so bothered about hiring bankers
If you want a job in China’s burgeoning private equity sector, you’d better brush up on your knowledge of bling brands and luxury cars. China is the Asian country most likely to see PE deal activity in...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Post-bonus hiring merry-go-round now rotating. Why male...
The post-bonus hiring merry-go-round is now in full rotation. Or at least this is the case when it comes to equity research, where Financial News reports that many men have been leaping on and off...
View ArticleMeet the ex-BAML MD prop trader showing that bankers can add social value
Ben Rick worked in investment banking for 18 years, eventually reaching managing director, heading up Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s European prop trading division – and then the Volcker rule hit in...
View ArticleIs Citi paying the price for some poor bonuses?
Citigroup, if you remember, was supposed to have provided some pleasant surprises when it came to bonuses for 2013. Not only did it pay a lot of cash, but headhunters (speaking strictly anonymously),...
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Career Insights: The job has a lot of upsides, but don’t make social plans,...
Elias Spangenberg, associate, debt capital markets, Morgan Stanley Elias graduated with a BSc in Accounting & Finance from University of Warwick in 2009 and joined Morgan Stanley that year. “The...
View ArticleHipsters and bankers set to collide in epic Brooklyn showdown
It’s like the TV show Survivor, except they’re replacing venomous snakes and dengue fever with braided beards and untucked flannel shirts. Several thousand Wall Street bankers are soon to venture from...
View ArticleThis is just another, ‘Oh dear, it’s Friday – will I get fired?’, finance job
Private banking is still thought of as a safer profession than investment banking. Well I’ve never been one of those Excel jockeys so can’t really speak for the investment banking crowd, but I can...
View ArticleCareer Crunch: Junior bankers surprisingly happy, how to rock your MBA
Catch up on the most popular articles on eFinancialCareers’ global network over the last seven days. Junior bankers: “We know what we’re getting into” In theory those starting out in investment banking...
View ArticleSpate of unusual hires on the buy-side
All of a sudden, hedge funds and asset management firms have a few new job titles that need filling. And they’re not your normal trader or research analyst positions. With the industry becoming more...
View ArticleAre you a top MD, a middle MD, or a grunt MD? Stop! Check your pay
Not all managing directors (MDs) in investment banks are created alike. Sure, Goldman Sachs has its partners and Nomura International has its senior MDs, but at most banks the term MD is just a...
View ArticleJob Market Pulse: Banks thirsty for research analysts, Goldman hiring down under
Hiring is back in a big way, so say banking recruiters who’ve spent the last few years mostly sitting on their hands. “The whole market has picked up,” Logan Naidu, chief executive of recruitment firm...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: 100 new jobs at hedge fund that hires scientists. Crazy love...
Winton Capital is hiring. The Oxford-based hedge fund whose CEO resigned last week (for family reasons) reportedly wants to open new offices in in New York, Sydney and Tokyo to add to its existing...
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