Morning Coffee: Who Goldman Sachs is bursting to hire now. All you need to...
Who does Goldman Sachs really want to hire? Is it excellent students who’ve spent time studying abroad? - Maybe so. But it’s also women in their late-20s and throughout their 30s. The Financial Times...
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Investment banks are desperate for talent – up north
Investment banks shipping their back office jobs into lower cost destinations in the UK outside of London is nothing new, but pace of expansion has increased dramatically over the past two years and...
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The top 30 Masters in Finance courses for getting a job in hedge funds,...
A Masters in Finance course, while not a prerequisite, appears to come in handy when applying for a graduate job in investment banking. Getting into the buy-side is a tougher ask – few hedge funds or...
View ArticleM&A. vs. sales and trading. Which is the best career for you?
You want to work in a high-paying, client-facing ‘front office’ job in an investment bank. So, should you go for a job in mergers and acquisitions M&A, or for a job in sales and trading? How can...
View ArticleRecounting a weird week of Wall Street courtroom drama
Our last update on the weird courtroom scuffles involving the 1% included a chief compliance officer who sued his neighbors over the smell of manure emanating from their property, despite the fact that...
View ArticleSix small or obscure finance firms with big hiring plans for the Middle East
Hiring is picking up in the Middle East financial sector, but often even large international banks have a small headcount in the region. Sometimes it’s worth looking at smaller firms where the Middle...
View ArticleThe Carsten Kengeter guide to a career change at 40, and beyond
Another senior banker has decided to reject the cutty-thrustiness of banking life and do something tangential but hopefully more relaxing. He is Carsten Kengeter, 47-year old ex-head of UBS’s...
View ArticleMillennium growing new team, fresh firms sprouting up across London
In the latest hiring roundup, Millennium is building a commodities team, Credit Suisse looks to grow in M&A and credit financing and new hedge funds popping up in London. Millennium hiring...
View ArticleAsian finance professionals not expecting big bonuses this year
Financial services professionals in Singapore and Hong Kong remain confident of receiving an annual bonus, says a new eFinancialCareers survey. But be warned: 2014 isn’t looking like being a year for...
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Morning Coffee: Unlikely bankers earning £320k aged 33. ‘Banker’...
Who earns £320k aged 33 in the City of London? Certainly not the ‘average’ front office banker, who according to the figures we most recently received from pay data company Emolument, is earning...
View ArticleA banking hiring boom is happening now in this sector in Singapore
Private banks in Singapore are breathing life into a generally dull fintech job market in Singapore, although the skills they are demanding can make it tricky for IT professionals to join their ranks....
View ArticleMorning Coffee: Why ex-Goldman bankers are joining Deutsche. UBS hiring here
People are leaving Goldman Sachs. And when they leave Goldman Sachs, they are (eventually) joining Deutsche Bank. Or at least this applies to two former senior Goldman staff whose new roles at the...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank says its big salary increases are becoming burdensome
Deutsche Bank has increased salaries for its senior investment bankers. Back in April, the German bank said it was hiking salaries for 1,700 of its highest earners by an average of €176k per head. Now...
View ArticleTudor continues UK expansion with new partner hire
Tudor Investment Corporation, which has been on a recruitment spree for its European operation this year, has continued its expansion with the recruitment of an FX portfolio manager from a hedge fund...
View ArticleVeteran traders ready to feel superior post-POMO
We’re in a whole new world. As of today, the Federal Open Market Committee is expected to announce that its adventures in quantitative easing (QE), or permanent open market operations (POMO), are over....
View ArticleOnce brilliant hedge fund managers starting to lose some sparkle
Assessing the health of the hedge fund industry is a complicated process. Frankly, it’s a confusing one. They had a rough year in 2013, getting trounced by cheap index funds, but most customers seemed...
View ArticleBanks’ weird hierarchies: what analysts, associates, VPs, MDs do really
What do investment banking job titles really signify? The storm of acronyms is bewildering to anyone outside banking who thinks a company has only one managing director (MD), or only a handful of vice...
View ArticleEight career and life lessons from Goldman Sachs’ new co-chair of investment...
Alexander Dibelius has been elevated to the co-chairman of Goldman Sachs investment bank, away from his previous role heading up the bank’s German operations. In English-speaking nations, he’s a...
View ArticleMeet the bankers in Asia who are still getting guaranteed bonuses
It’s the final quarter of the year and if a bank wants to hire you now it must surely offer you a guaranteed bonus, especially in a comparatively buoyant job market like Singapore or Hong Kong. This...
View ArticleMorning Coffee: How to walk into a job at JPMorgan. Ex-Citi exec complains of...
Want to stroll off the street and into a job at JPMorgan? Become an expert in cyber-security. Earlier this month, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon announced that the bank’s spending on cyber-security is due to...
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